Strava Developer reviews

4.1

77% would recommend to a friend

(18 total reviews)
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Mike Martin

100% approve of CEO

83% positive business outlook

Developer employees have rated Strava with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 18 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Strava is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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18 reviews
2.0
Mar 30, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great work/life balance and great benefits (health insurance was amazing)! While there is room for improvement, the company is actively working to promote diversity. Culture overall was good, although with the size of the company it could sometimes feel cliquey and reminiscent of high school dynamics.

Cons

They have their user's best interests in mind, unfortunately they can't seem to figure out how to translate that into successful features. I think this is the largest pain point for the company, along with needs for leadership refinement/development. While leadership is made up of nice people, they don't have the skills necessary to effectively lead the organization and get it out of this rut it's been in. There is a strong community of individuals with similar interests in fitness/sports at the company, but I feel like this can lead to an echo chamber effect sometimes. Over the course of my time there, it was disappointing to see several features fail to take off, and I believe the company would benefit from more reflection and analysis on what went wrong and how to improve moving forward. The multiple reorgs last year has led to a great deal of confusion among the employees - ways of working and processes are always changing. It also appears the company relies on verbal recognition as the primary form of award and not additional comp/bonuses when it comes to recognizing employees who go above and beyond.

4.0
Mar 29, 2023

I love it here

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I love the impact Strava has on people and the team that makes it happen

Cons

We are working on them

1.0
Jan 3, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good company mission - Good benefits - Good work-life balance

Cons

- Very inexperienced senior leadership team. There are multiple people who haven't really worked anywhere else or in any other successful company. But they are in the top person's inner circle (demographic-wise and just tenure) so they keep getting promoted. One leader made multiple bad hires (there were measurable public failures and very clear sentiment) and they still let multiple people quit because of the bad hire, even though eventually they had to let go of the bad hire anyways. Despite such shoddy decisions they are still tasked with running the show. Their is no accountability. - The senior leadership culture is very defensive. They push a culture where nobody can express a critique about anything. The smallest negative opinion or feedback is punished, and the all hands is used to publically shame the entire company to ensure even anonymously nobody says anything negative about leadership. The anonymous forum is a joke - all the responses are platitudes and gas-lighting of employees, with the aim to ensure nobody submits any further feedback. They keep saying come have a live conversation but when people go have a live conversation they punish them and take away their good projects. - The leadership team has their head in the sand about the business. They only listen to someone with no experience, who is pushing his personal agenda but knows how to butter up the senior leaders. - The company made a huge deal about being anti-racist. By all reports, the people of color are unhappy and leaving in bulk.

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