Narrative Science reviews

Thank you for providing feedback on your time at Narrative Science. We work hard to ensure that communication around our strategy is clear to all of our employees but there is always room for improvement. We regularly talk about our strategy and go to market approach at our all-hands meetings and keep up-to-date information on our product roadmap in Confluence (which serves as our company intranet) that is published weekly. With regards to your comments about our executive team, we do our best to hire people who are smarter and know more than us because we believe that’s what creates a great team and an even better company. We encourage everyone to give feedback through a variety of anonymous channels (engagement surveys, all-hands questions) as well as in-person. We know we don’t have all the answers and lean on the team around us to help us solve the challenging problems that keep us engaged.

Thanks for leaving feedback on your experience at Narrative Science. Based on our compensation research and benchmarking, we believe our salaries are in line with the market for tech companies of our size in Chicago (as well as Seattle and New York where we have small offices). That being said, we are continuously refreshing this data to ensure we remain competitive. Your feedback is a good reminder that we need to keep this top of mind. From a diversity perspective, we have not seen a dramatic change in the demographic breakdown of our employee or board population in the last 1.5 years but we have taken action in a number of ways to ensure that we have a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment at Narrative Science. We’ve done this through educating our team on a variety of DEI related topics (such as unconscious bias, gender identity + pronouns, allyship) and engaging in community outreach and activities (by attending DEI events and building partnerships with organizations that increase awareness of opportunities in tech for underrepresented minorities). In addition, we’ve taken a hard look at our recruiting and general people practices and made adjustments to eliminate bias. It often takes time to see tangible results from this work but we are proud of what we’ve achieved to date and will continue to focus on action that will make us better. Lastly, we continue to work on communication and are constantly trying new methods of communication to ensure that everyone has the information they need, through the appropriate channels.