Big Squid reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(28 total reviews)
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Nick Magnuson

89% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Big Squid has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 28 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Big Squid 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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28 reviews
5.0
Jun 22, 2020

The Underdog in AutoML

Recommend
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Pros

Big Squid has recently restructured and operates with a lean and agile culture. Machine learning and AI technologies are evolving rapidly and gaining in popularity. There is incredible market opportunity for Big Squid, and their user experience approach is unlike any other product in the market. Executive leadership drives a transparent, goal oriented culture with clear direction on objectives required to achieve success. The teams within Big Squid are amazing to work with. Through trust and agility, we can move quickly to respond to the evolving marketplace, and have confidence that everyone is playing their position exactly as we need them.

Cons

Market leaders in our category have significantly larger budgets to attack a relatively nascent marketplace.

1.0
Nov 19, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people on the teams are great. There's good communication and teamwork, and they have client interests in mind when communicating expectations.

Cons

Upper management (CEO) creates an abusive work environment belittling employees, blaming them when he is caught in lies, and manipulating others to vilify individuals who upset him.

1.0
Nov 7, 2019

Great team, horrible leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people that worked there were great it was fun to work in multiple industries and learn to implement ML for businesses. They had a great team who worked hard to gain every inch of success.

Cons

The great team mentioned before was constantly undermined by upper management(CEO/President). The team always gave constructive feedback and tried our best to set proper expectations for the client but that was never a concern for management and seen every time as being negative. The culture was good 2-3 years ago but has rapidly declined. I would never recommend working in this environment. You are constantly blamed for company/leadership failures. Dishonest and untrustworthy leadership. After leading the team astray and loosing accounts because they were saying the product could do things that it couldn't do. The CEO laid off half the staff and the people he laid off were part of the team actually delivering any sort of results. Absolutely no management changed. This is attributed to the fact that he cannot see any of his own faults and blames the team. He continues to do the same thing expecting different results.

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