Whatnot reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(200 total reviews)

Grant LaFontaine

88% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Whatnot has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 200 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Whatnot 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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200 reviews
2.0
Jul 11, 2024

Biggest Mistake

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stipends Work from home Great team members

Cons

The overall work load doesn’t match the pay. The only agents that are able to meet the metric system are the tenured agents. They expect you to know as much as the tenured agents within 2 weeks of training. Training was very basic and it wasn’t engaging. Then they throw you into seller support where you have no idea how to answer sellers because the training on seller support was all about preparing to go live & that was where we spent a week preparing. The supervisors act like they are there to support you, but show favoritism towards other colleagues. If you’re not in the ‘in crowd’ you won’t succeed. They are very good with gaslighting you when you ask about your other peers meeting metrics. Their philosophy is that they give you all these stipends to compensate for the fact that you have to spend day in and day out tirelessly answering tickets not even to be compensated properly. They have a very high turn over rate. The training class I was in was told that we would have 1 more day of training so we could ask questions, and this never happened. Everyone from my training class was struggling to meet the metrics. You would think that they would adjust the training methods to help with what they’re asking, but they never did. If you don’t catch onto what they are asking for quick enough, they terminate you.

2.0
Sep 20, 2022

Weak HR sourcing strategy

Recommend
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Pros

Enticing product and concept overall.

Cons

Weak communication and interview management at the recruiting level. They dont alway seems to know where they are going nor what they are doing.

3.0
Oct 28, 2024

No investment in employee growth

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazing benefits, culture is great, the business is thriving.

Cons

There is no investment in growing current employees. Internal advancement is basically non existent. They would prefer to hire externally than to truly promote internal mobility. They quietly lay off employees using the excuse "due to restructure" and then turn around and post new openings on the team on LinkedIn with very little difference in the job description but level up the position. Instead of investing in current employees growth to set you up to promote (level up) they just lay you off and hire someone new with no regard to the years of knowledge and dedication you have given the company. They do this quietly and most of the company doesn't even know it has happened.

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