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Zoom Communications

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Zoom Communications reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,989 total reviews)
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Eric S. Yuan

76% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Zoom Communications has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,989 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Zoom Communications employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Feb 18, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits were okay, but no more. They took it all away to cut cost. Mgr is good and competent, but feel sorry for him. Line managers are lame ducks who are not allowed to drive anything by the vulturous senior leadership. Senior leaders do not lead, they micromanage. Culture used to good, not anymore. New senior leadership hires systematically destroying the morale of the US team to move jobs overseas.

Cons

If you are an engineer, architect or tech analyst, do not join Zoom US. Particularly, do not join zoom IT. US engineering is miserable, everything owned by team in China. IT org is a miserable place to work, increasingly everything is moving and owned in India. Each org has its own engineering team, mostly controlled by non eng leaders (except product engineering) with zero knowledge of how to scale engineering with result being these different orgs work on the same codebase with zero synergy and no collaboration or communication with code and functional duplications and inconsistent software designs . Lot of tech debt all over the place. They are downsizing US team and moving jobs overseas. Senior leadership in IT treats US engineers and analysts like dirt and second class constantly threatening, intimidating and bullying them and pandering to teams in India treating them like darlings and overlook their incompetence and underperformance. Whereas US teams work as if there are knife on their throat all the time. They do of all of that publicly and unashamedly. The recent IT c-suite and his senior leaders have been really bad hires, who are destroying the culture from the core. They are busy in empire building by hiring folks from their inner circle and network creating a mafia like system sidelining everyone else who are not part of their inner circle. No diversity in talent. Contrarian ideas not welcome. You have to say "yes" and boot licker to survive. All engineering and technical ownership moving to India, with zero growth opportunity for US folks. Within a week of company wide layoff, IT leadership announced hiring of new folks in India. How apathetic with zero sensibilities and intelligence. Morale in US teams are at all time low. They did company wide layoff and cut employee benefits severly, and yet are spending multi million dollars in backoffice migration project in IT by hiring offshore consultants in India. This thing is not going to drive any innovation or bring new product to market or help in generating additional revenue, yet the IT C-suite and his directs have somehow convinced the executive leadership that this project is really important for zoom at this critical phase of the company when the company is struggling on all fronts.

1.0
Jul 4, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Allowd work remotely, less meeting, that's it

Cons

1. compensation is heavely bellow market rate 2. Push too hard for everyone, it doesn't matter what you compesation is, just push, push and push, no work-life balance at all, so just ask for as higher compensation as you can 3. Amost have to work at night 5 days per week to coordinate with China team 4. Manager is not reasonable at all, just expect to delivery the result on-time, it don't matter what happen, even employee sick, long chinese holidys week, wrong estimation, didn't get third party credential on-time, all doesn't matter. You just to get it done. Chinese style management, when the job not done, always developer's perfromance issue. 5. Big code repsitory, no microservice, developers compete to merge the code and the master branch break every week, if not everyday 6. Lost of documents, that's good, lots of duplicate and not in good shape 7. everyone is busy for their own job, so don't expect to get support from other guy 8. not easy for new guys to catch up, think twice 9. interview is easy, they don't care that much, grap some one and push hard

2.0
Apr 14, 2022

Spiraling Down - Sad to see....

Recommend
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Pros

Lots of fun during the pandemic and did a lot of great things for people. Benefits are wonderful.

Cons

This place is turning into Cisco and getting beat, bad, by Microsoft. The management has turned into a desperate bunch of people that are chasing numbers that are completely unrealistic and based off of numbers that were accomplished during the pandemic. They continue to hire people from Cisco and they bring that toxic culture to Zoom.

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