Storable reviews

3.3

50% would recommend to a friend

(214 total reviews)

Chuck Gordon

65% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Storable has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 214 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Storable 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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214 reviews
1.0
May 12, 2022

Stay away if you are acquired

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Pros

You work remote. Decent benefits.

Cons

If you are a company that was acquired by Storable you get treated a lot more poorly than if you started with Storable. There is very little opportunity for growth. They preach inclusion and diversity, but they completely fall short nor do they even try. If you are a minority looking for opportunity stay away. I am actually surprised they have positive reviews because most the people I talk to are miserable and are looking to get out. They cater to certain clients, but other smaller clients get shafted and that is why they are getting so many cancels, but then executive leaders wonder why clients are canceling.

4.0
Jul 30, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good people on the Engineering team. I thoroughly enjoy working with the people on my team. Catered lunch every day and occasional sponsored happy hours. The SpareFoot Engineering team follows modern best practices for the most part: Agile development process, pair programming, code review, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. Open collaborative environment. As an engineer on the team you are given a lot of autonomy to impact change. SpareFoot invests in developing engineers. Every engineer receives one full paid conference or training of your choice per year. SpareFoot also brings in experts to lead workshops. They recently brought in a Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) trainer from Europe to lead a 3 day workshop.

Cons

SpareFoot's mantra is "try it, fail fast, then iterate". While this is fun for a bumper sticker, the reality is it can be trying when product strategy changes out from underneath you. Even when the new strategy is the correct strategy the big changes in direction can be distracting. SpareFoot is not a new company. Over the years it has accumulated a lot of different ways to solve to solve similar problems. Component teams and containers exacerbate this problem. Polyglot development is often required to implement a single feature as you jump between Node.js, PHP/Silex, and Lambdas written in Python. The team is in the process of standardizing tech and moving to cross functional feature teams. SpareFoot lives on the edge. For example, we probably jumped the gun by a few months in migrating everything to Docker in production. We experienced a few months where things were breaking regularly. The platform has stabilized now, but there were a few extremely unpleasant weeks. The SpareFoot culture has grown up as the as the median age has increased by 10+ years. Not a con for all, but sometimes I miss the small, young, fun, start-up antics.

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Storable Response
9y
Thanks very much for the feedback - I'm glad to hear your experience with SpareFoot has been so positive! In response to some of your suggestions about areas to improve, it's important to keep in mind that SpareFoot moves quickly and changes things around in response to market conditions and new insights. That adaptability is what we need in order to win and will continue to be core to our future. That being said, we definitely understand that we need a small set of things to focus on which is why we recently rolled out our four company-wide initiatives. In terms of our team structure, as you mentioned we are working hard to transition from component teams to cross-functional teams and standardize our components when necessary. This will take some time but we see strong progress ahead of us. On a related note, we have been further to the left of the adoption curve than many companies with respect to Docker and containers. While a lot of effort was put behind the move we strongly believe that migrating to a container-first architecture was the correct strategy. As you mentioned, the vast majority of the stability issues that plagued us early on have been solved. Finally, the culture continues to evolve as we mature as a company. We truly appreciate your perspective and will constantly challenge ourselves to keep winning while maintaining the fun environment that makes us such a great place to work. I definitely encourage you to keep providing feedback through culture surveys, Q&A and to just come chat with me anytime something comes up.
2.0
Nov 4, 2015

Drink the cool-aid and you'll do great.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A lot of perks. Ex: culinary staff prepares amazing buffet style lunches every day, kitchens stocked fully with snacks and beverages (alcoholic and non) , arcade games scattered throughout office, frequent parties, gatherings and events thrown for employees.

Cons

Messy, cluttered work environment, cultish/frat-y vibe. Leadership's aversion to corporate environments was more often a positive trait, though it leads to messy and inconsistent approaches in dealing with general HR issues among employees.

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Storable Response
10y
Thank you for providing your feedback. We are always working hard to maintain the balance of a fast-paced, startup environment with the needs of a large employee base. We always welcome transparency and feedback from our team to continue to improve.
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