Avalara reviews

3.1

47% would recommend to a friend

(1,566 total reviews)
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Hugo Sarrazin

35% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Avalara has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,566 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Avalara 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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1.0
Mar 13, 2017

Horrible Company

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Pros

Idid not find any pros there

Cons

I worked in Ops team. Horrible team members. No team work. no team help at all. Needed to make schedule to just to know a simple thing as new hire. Was given tasks and not help from senior team mebers. All by yourself.

3.0
Jan 9, 2015

Not for everyone

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A handful of awesome, hardworking people that make the craziness bearable. The product, truly one of the best products on the market currently. The clients, who are an interesting and diverse group of people.

Cons

Working at Avalara is like being in an abusive relationship. Some departments are better than others depending on who is managing and some people handle the stress better than others, but overall, a challenging place to work. Nepotism runs rampant, and is fine if the employees are hard workers and pull their weight, but too often others have to pick up the slack and correct repeated and frustrating errors (seriously a few people are moved from area to area because they have failed spectacularly but because they have some sort of pull with a VP, they are never fired, nor can you criticize them). Overt sexism. Working here is not for the faint of heart. High employee churn occurs because management considered workers to be disposable and condones toxic management styles. Online reviews are followed closely and employees (especially new ones) are "encouraged" to cover bad reviews by posting lots of "good" reviews.

2.0
Dec 3, 2024

Shell of a Company

Recommend
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Pros

Great if you're in sales!

Cons

Stagnating wages, little to no career growth, benefits are below average across the board; they haven't changed in years and, if anything, became worse in the last two.

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