SimpliSafe reviews

3.3

49% would recommend to a friend

(358 total reviews)

Hilary Schneider

24% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

SimpliSafe has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 358 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SimpliSafe 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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358 reviews
1.0
May 22, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Paid training -Great opportunities for working overtime for more money because it’s offered frequently -The pay is nice for a full time job. -Qualifications for hiring are minimal, it’s not difficult to be hired and in general the job is easy to learn there’s a lot of help included. -It’s work from home permanently.

Cons

No opportunities for further promotions: even for employees who have been working at the company for several years and when someone IS promoted it is favoritism, an employee who I literally helped learn how to do our job since his first day became a supervisor within months when I was employee for a year at that point asking for promotion opportunities. The company continues to add more responsibilities to what their employees have to do instead of listening to customers and upgrading their security products for the better for happier customers. No vacation days off promised, so if you want time with your family you have to worry about taking time out of your day to request the holiday off and HOPE it gets approved. There’s three tiers for tech agents at the company: Tier 1,2 and 3 and even though tier 3 agents speak to the most customers everyday, take the most difficult technical calls and are the most experienced agents with Simplisafe equipment they get paid the same amount as tier 1 and 2 agents ? and this is something they expect us to be okay with this ? Attendance is UNNECESSARILY strict, we used to be able to call out if an emergency happens unexpectedly but now it’s basically impossible to take one day off without consequence if it’s not pre scheduled several days in advance.

3.0
Nov 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Handled the pandemic well. No shortage of projects to work on. Typical tech company perks and market rate pay (can’t speak to whether this is true in warehouse or customer support). DevOps and IT teams are some of the best I’ve ever worked with.

Cons

Typical mid-sized tech company problems: A lot of reinventing the wheel instead of following what has been done by others before. A LOT of ineffective managers (good engineer does not make a good manager of engineers). Tons of manual processes by various teams because there is no time/resources to re-engineer/automate/scale things. Despite admitting that the future is hybrid, the messaging is coded to mean c level buys the outdated belief of always being in the office. Underperforming employees are just moved around instead of dealt with, especially if they’ve been around for a bit. All the attrition recently isn’t surprising.

2.0
Aug 27, 2019

A mixed bag at best

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free beer on Fridays; Office is in a central location in downtown Boston; If you end up on the right team the culture can be fun. It's okay for a starter job but that's it.

Cons

I picked up a lot of the slack for my supervisor managing the team day to day and disciplining the team, causing a lot of unneeded stress; Squad leaders and permit department were absolutely terrible at giving answers in a timely manner when customers were on the line during escalations. As a final note, ladies, be careful - I had a former supervisor direct very inappropriate comments towards me continuously and when someone told HR about the situation, it was never properly addressed. All in all I would not recommend working here if you are looking for an employer who has your back.

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