Scale reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(421 total reviews)
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Alexandr Wang

66% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Scale has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 421 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Scale 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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421 reviews
1.0
Aug 3, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can find well-meaning ICs on your project team who are also shackled and supportive about grinding through hell together.

Cons

- 80 hours per week is the minimum. It's normal to have 100+ hour work weeks. What's a weekend? - No 401k matching, which is hilarious for a $13B company. Even startups worth a fraction of Scale offer 401k matching... - Frequent cost-cutting in areas that don't make sense (e.g., dropping rates to $7/hour for data labelers in certain countries on coding projects) despite subleasing one of the most expensive offices. - No training or care from "leadership." They're really only worried about how much they can make and which mansions/boats they can buy if Scale IPOs or exits. "Leadership" has no real organizational management experience and runs Scale like a frat house. - Burn out, burn out, burn out. Burnt out? They'll let you go. - Wizard of the Oz effect: the CEO's job is to make sure Scale looks good. What happens inside the company and how poorly run the organization is will make anybody scream. Project quality is terrible, and our customers know it. There are constant fires from trying to make up for how terrible everything is.

1.0
Jan 28, 2023

No merit, only politics

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Hopefully, it will go public someday.

Cons

This company hires senior staff engineers from the top tech companies, but the CEO's "inner circle" abuses them for a year, so they all quit. has no one in charge of anything. Everybody here is a new grad. their very first job. There are good new grad engineers coming out of school, but they leave after a year. "Leaderships" are extremely insecure, it's also their first job ever, they're trying to get people to quit because they're afraid of good ones.

1.0
Jan 26, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice benefits (pre-2023), great opportunity to hop into a pressure cooker and ruthlessly develop your skillset.

Cons

Politics involved in every possible decision at every level, and management is inexperienced and fails to communicate effectively to their team. Leadership overlooks negative feedback for employees in their inner circle and doesn't follow through on promised improvements. Elitism runs rampant within the company where those with prestigious education/experience feel obligated to talk down on everyone else. There is no "life", just work, and leadership claims every year that they will improve work-life balance, but employees are still stuck working 100+ hour work weeks for very mediocre pay. No empathy for data labelers, who are treated like expendable tools rather than people.

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