Angi reviews

I started working for HomeAdvisor prior to the Angie's List merger and it was an incredible company, staffed with amazing people, clear objectives, fantastic leadership, and the best perks and benefits around. It still definitely had that exciting and supportive start-up feel. I felt ridiculously grateful to be there and had never been happier in a role. Things really took a turn in mid-2020 during the rushed and chaotic HomeAdvisor rebrand and the leader of my team was seemingly let go for no reason. After that it was a slow decline into a dumpster fire as more and more long-time employees, both in and out of leadership positions, were forced out of the company and those who could see the writing on the wall began leaving on their own. Even C-level people, people who had been there for over a decade and helped make that company what it was, were forced out with barely a mention or explanation to employees. And they've all seemingly been replaced by people from Handy a company acquired by HA/IAC in 2018. (It felt quite a bit like a hostile takeover to be honest; all HA people were pushed out and seemingly replaced by Handy execs, including the CEO.) Every week there would be news of someone else who was let go or chose to leave. And then just before the Angi rebrand, which again was totally rushed, chaotic and with so little communication on what was happening to employees it resulted in many many hours of wasted time and work, my second manager (another incredible and long-time leader) was let go without explanation, and replaced with an outsider who had clearly never actually managed people before and was awful at it. And with that, the greatest job I'd ever had turned into the absolute worst one. The new suite of leadership does not care about the employees. It's only about the numbers and you are reminded every day that you are replaceable. When I chose to verbalize my complaints, I was let go. It wasn't until after I left and my mental health began improving that I realized how much of a toll my last year at this company took on me. HomeAdvisor was a wonderful company. Angi destroyed it. Finally, the pay is embarrassing. I was paid well below market average for my position and considering how much money this corporation rakes in, there was no excuse for it. It was demoralizing hearing leadership claim there were freezes on raises "due to covid" and then pointing to record profits all in the same breath. What a joke. I would steer clear of this place.

HomeAdvisor was a great company until its merge with Angie's List and rebrand into Angi. The leadership was great and you could tell they knew how to run a public company. HomeAdvisor was growing and revenue was up. Things were being done right. Once the rebrand to Angi occurred the company had most of its C-Suite execs replaced with people from start up backgrounds. Thats when the layoffs began. Shortly after the rebrand, product directors and managers who played a key role in making sure the rebrand was successful were fired in a first round of layoffs. Believe it or not the home services business model is actually fairly complex and a lot of business specific knowledge is gained the longer you work here. That knowledge cannot be easily replaced. However, the new C-Suite believes that the business model can be simplified. Therefore, this knowledge is disposable. This would be true, but when you have built your entire tech stack around the first business model it is very unwise to layoff the people who are most knowledgable about it. But, that is what happened. The second round of layoffs came when our new CTO asked for a list. From this list, the new CTO chose dozens of engineers to be laid off without consulting their managers. This layoff came right after our quarterly reviews where my colleagues who were fired passed with flying colors. It was a huge shock to us all. On top of this, those of us who got to keep our jobs were notified about who was being laid off before the individuals being laid off were. Therefore, when we reached out to our fired colleagues to tell them how sorry we were they had no idea what we were talking about. Then in our next company wide meeting we were told that the layoffs occurred because of a “new company direction” and that most of my laid off colleagues’ positions would be rehired for. Finally, when our new CTO was asked when the next round of layoffs would be he laughed. I would expect this kind of behavior from a start up struggling to raise series A funding, but not a public company. I’ll work for HomeAdvisor, not Angi.