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LevelUp

Acquired by Grubhub

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LevelUp reviews

4.2

82% would recommend to a friend

(61 total reviews)
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Seth Priebatsch

95% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

LevelUp has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 61 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The LevelUp employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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61 reviews
2.0
Jun 22, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very laid back and young work environment.

Cons

Unfortunately, the fact that they are young and laid back is the exact reason why this company will never be tier 1. The young culture is fun but their is zero professional guidance. Merit is based on a fraternity like recognition structure. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this company isn't around in a few years. Don't even think about a career with this company. Pay is extremely minimum and there is little opportunity for growth.

4.0
Jul 12, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people here are awesome. Some of the smartest people I've ever worked with and they're all around my age (25 at the time of writing this review). I think the average age is something like 28-30. Everyone's eager to help each other learn and get better at what they do. Very collaborative environment. No dress code (at least for engineering positions). Something that LevelUp does best is keeping account management (AMs) away from its developers. At my previous job, AMs constantly came up to me asking me to switch gears and do something for them. It was so stressful and I hated it. That has not happened once in the year and a half I've worked here. Management has guidelines in place to prevent account managers from bombarding the developers with tasks. They must go through a formal ticket creation and grooming flow before the task reaches the developer. Regardless of the acquisition, LevelUp still feels mostly like it did before the acquisition and the culture here is awesome. It's super diverse, everyone promotes equality, and company values are super important to the employees.

Cons

The initial acquisition by Grubhub was a little rough. We had a ton of meetings and we lost some benefits, but not the change in benefits wasn't too bad (at least for me, a single 25 year old male). I still work on LevelUp specific code, but some of my teammates have transitioned full-time to working on the Grubhub app which looks cool but I've heard dealing with their development team can be pretty painful. Grubhub's dev team is not present in the LevelUp Boston office so all communication is done via Slack or phone calls. Luckily, there is more than one developer working on the Grubhub codebase in the Boston office and they are very collaborative in their workflow. I think the worst part about the acquisition was that while it was happening, there was a lot of hype between LevelUp's CEO Seth, and Grubhub's former CEO Stan Chia. We were having a lot of company wide meetings with Seth and Stan for everyone to ask questions and it was going great and they appeared to be very transparent, but it seems as soon as the acquisition became final and Stan got his money, he cashed out and accepted an offer elsewhere. Seemed kinda sketch to be honest and really made me question whether the decision was a good one.

5.0
Oct 5, 2017

THE BEST PLACE TO WORK

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Unbelievable benefits for me and my family: 100% paid monthly premiums for BCBS Health & Dental, Vision and a 100% reimbursable medical deductible. They essentially reimburse me for medical bills -- that's unheard of. Amazing office environment that allows you to be yourself, dress casually, work comfortably and collaborate with co-workers in the cafe in our in lounge space. We are non-stop fed food from local businesses and are given money each month to spend at these local businesses, whether it's for breakfast, lunch, dinner or wine. Yes, wine. Parental Leave is fair, generous and did I mention fair? They gave me time to spend with my little one after the birth and continued my pay so I wouldn't have to stress about paying the bills and buying diapers.

Cons

The office is centrally located in Downtown Boston 2 blocks from South Station -- it's only a Con because I live in the burbs and have a 1+ hour commute to/from the office every day. I wish they provided more hands on management training, but they do allow managers to manage with their only style which is nice.

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