Bandwidth reviews

When I started at Bandwidth three years ago I thought it’d be the place I retire. After going through how the company has handled COVID though I see how some things that didn’t bother me much when I started have big impacts on the company’s trajectory and it’s employees now. Unfortunately it mostly seems to come directly from the CEO. Most of the other reviews here are true. They reluctantly let us work from home. They pushed people to come back to the office. They sent weekly and daily emails advertising free lunch for people that came in. We got emails about people with COVID attending company events. They required all employees to come into the office June 2nd with no rules for mask wearing, vaccinations, etc. The CEO did say if you don’t want to come in then than it might not be the company for you. It breaks my heart. On top of all of this the actual product and teams are split between being a telecom network or being a software platform and many competitors have outpaced us because of it.

Salary and overall compensation is below current market rates by a decent margin. Benefits/insurance are only exceptional if you have a family, otherwise they're about average. Upper level management decisions and directives are often implemented with no input from the employees affected or their management in many cases. Strong emphasis on fitting every team into the same mold, with little room for self organization of teams. Little flexibility related to wfh before the pandemic, and no one could tell me what the policy on this would be as time went on. My managers were open to a mixed office/wfh schedule, but said it was ultimately not up to them. Bandwidth's covid response made me embarrassed to an employee of the company. The CEOs (conservative) personal beliefs and principals greatly influenced all company policy surrounding the pandemic and often went against or ignored CDC reccomendations. Finally, on a personal note, I found the praying at the beginning of every company-wide all-hands meetings to be very non-inclusive and often made me uncomfortable.