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Sphero reviews

3.7

60% would recommend to a friend

(50 total reviews)

Paul Copioli

90% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.4

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Culture & values

3.6

Work/Life balance

3.3

Senior management

3.3

Career opportunities

Sphero has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 50 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sphero employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

50 reviews
3.0
Sep 18, 2018

Sphero needs to learn to manage its growth.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The work is interesting. The engineers are amazing.

Cons

Management has been unable to keep great people there. The company grew very quickly after the success of its BB-8 robot and then drastically reduced its workforce about a year later.

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Sphero Response
7y
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. As a startup, we often take big risks to achieve success. While BB-8 was a huge success in 2015, we realized that licensed products did not provide a long-term sustainable business model and we needed to refocus our business on our core brand and successes. We agree with you that our people are our greatest asset and without them, we could never create the products that inspire the creators of tomorrow. Reducing our workforce was an extremely difficult thing we had to do as a company to grow at a more sustainable pace in the future. As always, if you would like to share more about your specific experiences, please reach out to the People team at people@sphero.com so that we can set up a time to talk. Thanks again for the feedback that will help make Sphero a better place to work.
4.0
Feb 3, 2018

Great if you love challenges

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Top notch talent at every level provides constant opportunities for learning; collaboration and teamwork is stronger than I have ever seen before; transparency from exec team; amazing benefits and perks; work/life balance is strongly promoted.

Cons

Plans change constantly and are not always well communicated, making weeks of work irrelevant; chaotic atmosphere due to last minute changes in direction.

3.0
Aug 16, 2021

Upper Management needs work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of snacks, most people were great. Flexible time off (but rarely took it). Plenty of work to do, but that was due to picking up work from laid off employees.

Cons

No vision for product. No great outlook for the company after all the lay offs. Valued some teams over most others. No budget to get our jobs done. I also didn't feel there was any vision for the company moving forward.

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