SonderMind reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(186 total reviews)
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Mark Frank

58% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

SonderMind has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 186 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SonderMind employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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186 reviews
2.0
Dec 8, 2021

Good values but poor leadership

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Pros

Most of the people who work there are genuinely awesome and care deeply about the mission. There's a lot of great things about the culture as a whole and the HR team is much better than most companies I've worked at (at least they seem to try their best). The benefits overall are really good and you are working towards a mission that is doing great things for the world. If you are on certain teams like engineering, your work-life balance is pretty good. It depends on who your manager is and if you're reporting to one of the "golden child" leaders who can do no wrong.

Cons

The leadership team seems like they don't know what the hell they're doing. Managers drop lie flies. If you are a person of color - JOIN AT YOUR OWN RISK. This company says that they care about inclusion but there's been very little if anything to actually support that and it's apparent that the leadership team does not care. There is definitely higher turnover for minorities here - ESPECIALLY for black employees. Everything about people leaving is so sudden and secretive, it's hard to know why people left and employees are left in the dark. The fear of suddenly being fired is rampant across the company, but people are afraid to express it for fear of that being cause for being let go. If you work on certain teams (support, billing, customer success), expect to be overworked, underpaid, undervalued, and your needs dismissed. Long timers (i.e., anyone who has been there for more than 6 months) becomes burned out and jaded.

2.0
Dec 1, 2021

Mental Health Company With No Mental Health Values

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Pros

SonderMind from a high level makes a lot of sense and is an appealing business model for anyone who is interested in joining a company hitting at high growth. A majority of the people working there truly believe in the mission statement and what contributions they can make to impact the company. Benefits are great! People Operations definitely works as best as they can with what they have been given. The culture continues to keep things light through the difficult parts of the job.

Cons

Majority of C Suite has seen MASSIVE turnover. The CEO keeps his good friends in these leadership positions (with minimal experience) instead of looking to fill those positions with subject matter experts that are suited to take on the high growth pains the company is seeing. They continuously fail up. Once a manager leaves they promote interim managers from other departments (sales to success, data to support, marketing to community) who often times are new themselves and do not have a grasp on the business or how they can make a specific team successful. SonderMind releases communication publicly boasting "we value mental health and take it seriously, so we are going to tell our employees to take time off"... they left out the asterisk here and had actually communicated (internally, of course) that most non exempt employees, specifically in customer operations (billing, customer support, care coordination) have to work still, albeit the rest of the company would be out of office to "focus on their mental health". Even though my team was not on the receiving end of that, the decision that was made to ostracize those teams was pretty representative of what they prioritize ($$). It was VERY uncomfortable to see that department get blatantly disregarded and it seems like that was a common theme in the time I worked there. Nobody could bring this up in our all hands without being dismissed or censored. All in all, this company overworks and undervalues most of their employees if they are not well liked or within the circle of "the boys club".

3.0
Nov 14, 2021

Mental health company that does not prioritize employee mental health

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Pros

Benefits, nice coworkers, good mission to be working towards

Cons

Burnout, poor work/life balance, compensation varies depending on role, not always confident in senior level decision making

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