Indeed reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(4,536 total reviews)
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Hisayuki Deko Idekoba

52% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Indeed has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,536 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Indeed employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jun 3, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Indeed had they typical perks of a tech company: Open PTO, 6 month parental leave, Hybrid work schedule, Great health insurance offerings, 401k contributions, RSUs, work/life balance. Offices offered snacks, barista, a catered lunch, and monthly happy hours. Salary was fair- could have been better, but could have been worse. Indeed offered some salary adjustments to some staff if they weren't making a certain threshold to meet the cost of living criteria in certain areas. Quarterly bonuses were a plus. In terms of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIBG+), Indeed had many active groups and they felt fairly progressive in recognizing the needs of the groups. For those who were US based, the company offered relocation for those who needed gender affirming care if they lived in a state that was blocking it.

Cons

Indeed recently laid off ~1000 employees in a global restructuring in an effort to "simplify" the company. Not sure whose life is simpler because it certainly isn't for those who were laid off and/or those who weren't are left picking up the pieces. Metrics and the way metrics were kept changing every few quarters which was hard to keep up with. Once you got into a groove or developed a strategy, Indeed made a change and you had to come up with another plan. Client Success partnered with Account Executives on their books and helped to grow accounts and reduce churn, however, their quarterly bonuses were significantly lower than their AE counterparts. The product was changing and leadership did not listen to the feedback of client facing staff. Many clients were not happy with the changes that were being made. This led to a lot of refunds and the products being rolled back or discontinued after a few months (leading to more client confusion). Indeed had a lot of cutbacks in the past 2 years. Last year, offices served breakfast and lunch, but cut breakfast to save money. Additionally WFH stipends were discontinued for all employees. During the pandemic, company wide monthly mental health days were initiated for staff and those were discontinued at the end of 2023 (supposedly staff were taking enough PTO to justify this).

3.0
Apr 16, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The product is pretty useful, and the work/life balance is okay. Some teams are remote, which is nice.

Cons

Technical management (at least in my experience) doesn't know what they're doing. I honestly don't understand the purpose of dev managers who don't know how to code. If your experience is like mine, expect your DM to make you do their job: resource planning, meeting organization, it's all ad hoc and delegated. DMs are glorified performance reviewers, and it's pretty clear they're being directed to squeeze performance reviews to find excuses to fire or hold back good engineers to avoid more layoffs, like all the big tech companies. Meanwhile, the tech stack is a mess. It's honestly baffling in 2024...it's something I would have considered obsolete in 2014. There's no time for tech debt, though, because management is so bad at managing projects that everyone is just working on experimental projects that are desperately guessing at ways to improve UX, the vast majority of which fail, wasting months of work. That makes sense for Google, who basically admitted 10 years ago that they'd peaked. Every app does eventually. But you shouldn't hire for growth if you aren't growing.

1.0
Dec 15, 2023

VERY "cliquish"

Recommend
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Pros

none that I can think of

Cons

Careful.... you need to drink the Kool Ade here. It's very cliquish. It's the weirdest place I've ever worked - you actually get rewarded for shameless self promotion and dinged if you just want to do your job. Tons of people love it but it's the worst place I've worked. So just be careful and trust your instincts in the interview process

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