Pax8 reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(428 total reviews)

Scott Chasin

57% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Pax8 has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 428 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pax8 employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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428 reviews
5.0
Mar 26, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Fast paced environment that still feels like a start up. Everyone wears many hats and the expectation is for nobody to ever say, "that's not my job". With over four years of working at Pax8 I've seen the company grow and mature quite a bit, but am always stunned by how they have not let their culture change. Every all hands meeting still has the same goofy components that were present when the company only had 20 people (git 'er done hat, top sales trophy, weird facts, etc). Pax8 is, by far, the best place I've ever worked.

Cons

If you need a highly structured job and have difficulties quickly pivoting when the job requires, this is not the place for you.

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Pax8 Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on our culture. We know that sustaining all of the elements that make it fun and rewarding to work at Pax8 is critical to our success so we place continuous focus on this as we don't want to lose our start up feel as we continue to grow. Thank you for all that you have done over the years as a member of the Pax8 family to make us who we are. Our people are the ones that drive our culture and success.
2.0
Mar 17, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Pax8 is really a great company, don't get me wrong. There are some truly amazing people that work here, and there is a good company culture. I have had the pleasure of working with many very intelligent, talented, and kind people at my time here, and have ended up (unintentionally) making actual friends out of coworkers, something I have always tried to avoid keeping work and home life separated. The company also works with some cool cloud products, so a great way to get your foot in the door in the cloud computing industry.

Cons

This is the part I don't want to write because I truly do like the company. There is definitely a "bro culture" here, always has been. There tend to be promotions and hiring decisions that don't make sense for the role aside from the person in question is buddies with the right people. There is also a lack of clear documentation on somethings can leave aspects of work up for interpretation and cause in office conflicts on how something should be done. Lately (this was definitely not always the case) employee concerns appear to be brushed off. When the company was smaller it was a very tight knit group with a lot of collaboration, more recently however its more of a "Do it my way or get out of my way" mentality which I firmly believe is seriously hurting the company. There also seems to be a constant flux in HR systems and insurance which can be a real pain in the butt. Lastly, and this is speculation based on my own personal experiences and those of my close coworkers, you can easily work yourself into a point where you can change jobs, causing you to be stuck in a role and preventing you from growing out of it.

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Pax8 Response
6y
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback. We are always working toward improving processes, opportunities and benefits for our employees. Diversity and Inclusion has become a centerpiece of our organization. We believe diversity makes us stronger. In fact, from our D&I committee, some employees recently started a women’s employee resource group, and we are working on other programs that will raise awareness on how we interact to bring out the best in each other. In regards to your interest in exploring new opportunities at the company, we have launched some new program to help employees do just this. Please feel free to reach out to me or your manager about our job shadowing and career planning programs. We want to see you thrive and advance.
4.0
Feb 24, 2020

Great Place.. but

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

great benefits, open PTO, great culture and vibe

Cons

limited upward mobility for some roles. management not as open and upfront at times

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Pax8 Response
6y
Happy to hear that our benefits and culture were positives for you as we are continually paying attention to these things to make sure that we are providing what our employees desire. I appreciate your feedback regarding your concerns as it is important to us that our employees feel that they have the opportunity to continually grow their careers with us, no matter what department they are in. We do provide professional development coaching to assist our employees with career pathing whether it be upward or cross-departmental as a way to achieve this but I sense that we may need to do a better job of promoting the availability of this service. We do pride ourselves on being transparent from the top down, however I do understand that our execution of this throughout the organization is not always perfect so this is definitely something that we are proactively working to improve. Thank you for taking the time to provide a review.
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