Searchspring reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(45 total reviews)
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Alex Kombos

27% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Searchspring has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 45 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Searchspring employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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45 reviews
3.0
Aug 18, 2021

Underpays employees

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Positive atmosphere - Reasonable amount of flexibility

Cons

- Underpays it's employees, especially engineers

3.0
Aug 15, 2023

Layoffs

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people to work with

Cons

Layoffs and new leadership have impacted the culture

2.0
Jan 10, 2019

A company still trying to figure it out

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice people (for the most part), good office location.

Cons

This company has been around for 11 years, but you would think it's still in the startup stage from the way it is run. There is not much process in place for training or long term employee development. If you're looking to join a growing company with a lot of opportunity, you should avoid SearchSpring. I heard of multiple cases where management will promise an employee a performance review/opportunity for a raise, but will keep pushing it off. Ridiculous. This company does not seem to understand that its most valuable assets are its employees. The CEO can be a micromanager, and seems insecure that his employees are taking advantage of him. This mindset trickles down and does not make for a fun culture (just my two cents). There is another co-founder, who still collects a salary even though he doesn't really do anything. He is never in the office, and lives in a different state. I'm not sure why he is still with the company. Management is ignorant to criticisms and high employee turnover (probably due to a lack of experience of management). It's a fine company if you stick around for a year or two, but there probably isn't a prosperous future for anyone beyond that.

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Searchspring Response
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Thank you for taking the time to give us feedback. We agree! And while no one wants to work in a company that is bogged down in the quagmire of red-tape, the lack of process at Searchspring was hurting us. In the last five months or so we have taken incremental steps to add sensible processes where there was chaos and the results have been encouraging. The new CEO, while involved in the details of the day to day operation, gives his employees much room to achieve the required results and we have also stopped paying people that don’t do anything. :) We have started to roll out a management review process where direct reports are asked to score their managers on a series of criteria (career development, respect, technical knowledge, etc.) and that is used to help our managers grow and foster a better work environment for everyone. We’re also toying with the idea of a slack bot to help capture this kind of information too: https://officevibe.com/
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