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SendGrid

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4.5

92% would recommend to a friend

(15 total reviews)
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Sameer Dholakia

97% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

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5.0
Sep 18, 2018

Awesome place to be

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people I worked with are great. Highly skilled, hard working, good at what they do. SendGrid’s value system is built on four H-words—characteristics that every employee is expected to possess and display. The Four H’s are Happy, Hungry, Humble and Honest. Although all four values are important, humility is the company’s most distinctive characteristic. Incredible benefits - Excellent compensation that rewards strong performance - Lots of autonomy - Tons of room for growth - Very transparent from the top down - Strong leadership - Intelligent and caring colleagues - The most fair and well thought out review process you will find everywhere - Exciting work

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SendGrid Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time to leave your Honest H feedback. We’re happy to hear you enjoy working with your team and that you find the 4H values consistent across the company. As a distributed company, it’s important that each person embrace those values which will ensure that they remain the mainstay of our strong culture. Thanks for helping keep them alive and well in Redwood City!
4.0
Jul 17, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Great company culture. Great work life balance.

Cons

Starting salary for support is on the low end.

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SendGrid Response
7y
Thanks for taking time to write. You're caring enough to write a review helps us build a stronger and stronger employment brand which helps us continue to scale and grow. Thank you!
1.0
Jun 26, 2018

Don't believe all the 4H Hype

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Pros

Free lunches, cell phone and fitness perks

Cons

Senior managers don't know how to measure or manage performance, especially with remote employees. Performance ratings are made by soliciting feedback from peers and in the case of managers, their direct reports. Since the people giving the feedback have only a small context of the responsibilities of the person they are given feedback on, this creates negative perceptions and unjust performance ratings. The culture in the office seem very cliquish and not very welcoming to employees that have a quiet demeanor.

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SendGrid Response
8y
We appreciate the Honest H feedback and we’re sorry to hear that you had a challenging experience with performance ratings and feeling more included. Fostering the growth and career development of our talented Gridders is a priority for us and we work hard to deliver regular, ongoing feedback, supported by a transparent performance review process. Our engagement survey questions, feedback from directs/peers/direct management including skip levels, achievement of individual and team goals & the overall performance and engagement of the team, are all ways we gather feedback on performance. We use skip level feedback as one small part of the assessment of management effectiveness and our goal is to be fair and balanced with all. Through our focus on fostering our 4H culture and via our Prism diversity and inclusion group initiative, we try everyday to create an environment where our Gridders can be their authentic selves at work and feel a genuine sense of belonging among our team. Thanks for sharing ways that you feel we’re falling short and know that we care and will continue to work hard to ensure this isn’t something other experience at the Grid.
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