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WP Engine

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3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(91 total reviews)
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Heather Brunner

81% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Work/Life balance

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.5

Culture & values

3.2

Career opportunities

3.1

Senior management

3.1

Compensation and benefits

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5.0
Mar 21, 2025

Excellence in action

Engineering
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Pros

- A company shows its mettle during a crisis. I've seen people (top down) show some of the strongest ethics, maturity, and courage imaginable in the last 6 months. - Heather is a gifted and serious leader. I genuinely believe that most of the good things about WPE cascade from her leadership and high quality hiring. - Some of the smartest and most genuinely talented folks I've worked with. - Remote-first culture, with no indication that an RTO mandate is around the corner. - People celebrate accomplishments ALL THE TIME at WPE. - While nowhere near top-of-market, the compensation and benefits are fair. With tech companies doing hard cultural pivots, WPE has such a distinct quality of life advantage right now that makes up for leaving a little money on the table.

Cons

- Big one: the uncertainty that we live with in the wake of Matt Mullenweg's unhinged behavior, both toward WPE and toward the WordPress ecosystem in general. Causes a lot of unnecessary anxiety. - For teams that aren't near an office hub, it's been hard to get budget approval to travel for IRL meetups. - Restructuring that has resulted in layoffs last year also caused a fair amount of anxiety for employees. - Career growth opportunities are limited lately. Probably true everywhere, but when you're not in hyper-growth mode, there just aren't many spots available to grow into. - Leadership in WordPress seems dedicated to making all the wrong decisions. At best, they're committed to throwing good money after bad on a visual/block editor (Gutenberg) while mostly ignoring improvements to the CMS, and at worst they are intentionally antagonizing their engaged user and developer community. WPE should probably figure out a way to diversify our product lines.

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WP Engine Response
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We sincerely appreciate you leaving such thoughtful and insightful feedback! We're so glad to hear you've had such a positive experience with things like our response to recent events, our CEO Heather (we agree, she rocks), our virtual-first work model and benefits we provide, and of course the people we have the privilege of working alongside every day. Our virtual-first hybrid model create some challenges in regards to bringing people together, but we're actively exploring opportunities for teams to connect and hope to provide more chances for them to come together in person. We kicked off 2025 with an initiative called "Vision, Values, Victory" which aims to ensure all employees at WP Engine understand our business goals and how we plan to get to there. It's our hope that this new framing will allow everyone to see how their work fits into the bigger picture. This year we're providing a number of workshops for both managers and individual contributors with the goal of ensuring everyone at WP Engine can grow their career, if you haven't done so we'd encourage you to take a look at these offerings and sign up for any workshops that might be applicable to your own career aspirations. If you ever have more feedback to share, positive or constructive, we'd encourage you to reach out to your EE Business Partner as we're always looking for feedback so we can all thrive together. Thank you again for sharing such thoughtful feedback, we're very glad to have you here at WP Engine!
5.0
Dec 18, 2024

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Customer development representative
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work life balance. Good product-market fit. Good brand and reputation.

Cons

Low pay. Sales org tried to minimize payouts.

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WP Engine Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback. We're so glad to hear you feel our emphasis on work/life balance, which we feel is very important for everyone at WP Engine to do their best work. We're also happy to hear you feel so aligned with our brand and product! In regards to pay, WP Engine's compensation philosophy is to pay competitive to market based on cost of talent vs cost of living. We utilize salary surveys to review our salary ranges on an annual basis and then conduct an annual salary planning review for market adjustment increases in sales. We recognize that employees feel more pressure to hit quotas as we approach the end of the month and are currently reviewing our structure to better allow our Sales Team to meet their goals and feel supported. If you're comfortable doing so, we'd encourage you to reach out to your EE Business Partner or anybody on our Employee Experience Team so we can learn more about your concerns and work to address them. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts, we're glad you're here!
3.0
Dec 2, 2024

Salary is not competitive but commission structure is nice, a grind

Brand account manager
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Pros

Competitive commission structure, chill work environment

Cons

Extremely low salary, can be mentally draining

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WP Engine Response
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Hello and thank you for taking the time to share your experience thus far at WP Engine. In regards to pay, WP Engine's compensation philosophy is to pay competitive to market based on cost of talent vs cost of living. We utilize salary surveys to review our salary ranges on an annual basis and then conduct an annual salary planning review for market adjustment increases in sales. We recognize that employees feel more pressure to hit quotas as we approach the end of the month and are currently reviewing our structure to better allow our Sales Team to meet their goals and feel supported. If you're comfortable doing so, we'd encourage you to reach out to your EE Business Partner or anybody on our Employee Experience Team so we can learn more about your concerns and work to address them. Thank you again for sharing your feedback.
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