January reviews

2.5

24% would recommend to a friend

(45 total reviews)

24% positive business outlook

January has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 45 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The January employee rating is 31% below average for employers within the Personal Consumer Services industry (3.6 stars).

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45 reviews
1.0
Mar 9, 2022

Lots of red flags

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Pros

- some individual contributors are skilled and professional

Cons

- lots of deception, dishonesty, and hiding by the senior management (particularly CEO & HR). - emails from CEO at all hours of the day to fix vaguely described issues, even on holidays, past 10pm, before 7am. - very few full-time engineering resources, several colleagues are interviewing to leave as well - culture of burnout, justified by "fast-moving startup" culture. However, the startup has not grown significantly by any metric. - lots of poor non-data-driven product decisions by CEO - lots of tech debt accumulated from endless employee turnover - huge compensation disparities within levels - the CTO is a part-time contractor - CEO is the head of the board so she has no one to keep her accountable.

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January Response
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Thank you for your feedback. All employees on our team are skilled, professionals and we do offer great opportunities to grow skills at this company. We always share as much information with team members as appropriate and address their questions and concerns promptly and directly, we are sorry if it doesn't always appear to be so and endeavor to be even more transparent going forward. We are a startup and recognize that that pace may not be right for everyone, and try and screen for this during our interview processes - we are emphasizing that part of our screening even more going forward. When we hire and promote we always benchmark and pay very generously at competitive market rates for all levels of contributors. We have a large number of full-time engineers on our team, many of them have been outsourced as is common with any technology company, but we agree about the importance of having them in-house and we are working very hard to bring the entire team in-house as soon as possible. Our CTO is an employee of the company. Our Engineering team is growing and is currently actively working on the next generation of our software product. We do operate in a space where things move fast and we believe that incurring technical debt is a reality that we should embrace when done wisely.
5.0
Mar 7, 2022

Talented team with tremendous potential

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The team is very talented and competent. The company has tremendous potential from the team, funding, and market need, plus the founder's vision and will. It is an inspiring mission that you can be proud to be working toward. As an engineer you get to work with cutting edge deep learning techniques; the technology behind the current AI surge.

Cons

There is currently a need for an experienced head of Product. Management is aware of this and is actively recruiting for it.

4.0
Mar 7, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

* Great team. Smart, dedicated team members. Top tiered experts in each area. * Great mission backed by science and technology. * Lots of interesting technology areas : real-time data pipeline, ML recommendation system, modern mobile app with strong focus on design and user engagement. Can learn from experts in the team and also apply one's skills on interesting problems. * Well funded startup with the freedom not to be limited by short-term goals only.

Cons

* Need more process improvement in order to scale up * (Not exactly a con but keep this in mind): need to be a self-starter. not everything will be spelt out in minute details - you need to be able to problem solve independently

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