iRobot reviews

3.4

40% would recommend to a friend

(389 total reviews)
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Gary Cohen

55% approve of CEO

15% positive business outlook

iRobot has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 389 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The iRobot employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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389 reviews
4.0
May 8, 2014

Fun Jobs, Odd Management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Everyone there loves what they're doing. You will probably never find another place so full of people who love their jobs so much. That alone makes it a cool culture. There are a lot of innovations and very cool things to work on from the mechanical to electrical to software.

Cons

They aren't the most software-friendly environment. The founders were mostly mechanical in disciplines, so software scheduling is sometimes a little bizarre. Software decisions are often made on history, not necessarily what's good going forward and you end up stuck with those decisions (as does the company). Overall, they have the worst IT support on the planet. The individual workers are really good, positive and helpful, but the structure is horrific. Makes the environment limiting and difficult to get technical things done. Too bad, because the team on the ground is high-quality.

1.0
Sep 28, 2013

Horrible management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Get to work with best in class engineers that are completely unappreciated by management.

Cons

CEO is complete figurehead and is impotent to make changes. Upper level management calls all of the shots and is making horrible decisions that is adversely impacting the morale of the workers. Impossible to get internally promoted, no ability to grow within organization. Management blatantly lies to workforce. Constant turnover of top talent. Numerous reorganizations, layoffs and office closures.

4.0
Sep 6, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The business of designing robots requires broad experience, and gives employees broad experience when working here. Employees can cultivate their understanding of mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing as applied to consumer and military robots. It is not a boring place to work.

Cons

Suprisingly, there are almost never any cool robots wandering the halls.

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