Does CircleCI pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, CircleCI employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.8 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at CircleCI. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at CircleCI?

60% of CircleCI employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated CircleCI 4.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at CircleCI?

Senior Software Engineer (14) , Software Engineer (13) , Account Executive (8) , Engineer (4) , Marketing (4) , Sales (4) , Staff Software Engineer (4) , Customer Success Manager (3) , Engineering Manager (3) , Sales Development Representative (SDR) (3) , Support Engineer (3) , Anonymous (2) , Business Intelligence Analyst (2) , Customer Success (2) , Customer Success Associate (2)

What are the pros of working at CircleCI according to real employee reviews?

"Great people and no politics" ((in 26 reviews)); "Work life balance is great" ((in 16 reviews)); "Good benefits" ((in 13 reviews)); "Good pay" ((in 8 reviews)); "Competitive Management" ((in 8 reviews))

What are the cons of working at CircleCI according to real employee reviews?

"3 rounds of layoffs" ((in 14 reviews)); "Dysfunctional leadership, no macro level product direction, hyper competitive space with no real organization strategy (beyond setting aggressive revenue targets), teams are hamstrung by CYA bureaucratic red tape and politics, technical debt never is allowed to be addressed, business model is entirely contingent on COGS." ((in 8 reviews)); "People have had 5 or 6 different managers in less than two years, which is just crazy." ((in 5 reviews)); "no 401k match :( but makes up for it with other benefits" ((in 5 reviews)); "Upper management seemed wobbly and wishy" ((in 4 reviews))

What are employees saying about CircleCI layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about CircleCI layoffs and their outlook for job security at CircleCI in 2026.

What are the top reviewed CircleCI locations?

San Francisco , Denver , Boston , Chicago , Portland , New York , Washington , Austin , Los Angeles , Santa Clara , Seattle , Jacksonville , Miami

CircleCI reviews

3.7

60% would recommend to a friend

(171 total reviews)

Jim Rose

66% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.5

Work/Life balance

4.2

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Culture & values

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Career opportunities

3.0

Senior management

CircleCI has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 171 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CircleCI 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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Reviews by job title

171 reviews

4.0

Jul 25, 2022

Sales

Account executive

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great leadership and wonderful people

Cons

Common growing tech company pains

4.0

Jul 14, 2022

Review

Senior devops engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Really smart people. Great culture.

Cons

Underpaid. Leadership keeps adding new features to product without fixing previous ones.

4.0

Jul 5, 2022

A great hyper growth company to work at.

Devops customer engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Fully remote available. Tons of flexibility with unlimited pto and very cognizant of your mental health to make sure you don’t burn out.

Cons

Fully remote, if you are not successful at setting yourself up, organization, task management, etc it can be difficult to focus on your job. Often times there can be little interaction so you must be active in participation or communication if that is something you need. The salary range can be lower than average depending on your area. For some it is on par but in major city it can feel like it’s lacking.

CircleCI Response

3y

Hi! Thank you so much for taking the time to write a review and give some feedback! Remote and distributed workforces can definitely be something to get used to. Please let me know if you need any help finding some Employee Resource Groups, fun slack channels, a donut meet partner, or anything of our other programs that CircleCI offers for employees to interact in a non-working environment. We are so thankful that you are here, and would love any suggestions to make it easier for our employees to interact! I would also love to chat with you about your thoughts on compensation. We actively try to add more and more benefits for employees to add to their complete compensation in addition to salary, but open to chat with you about additional suggestions! If you feel comfortable, please reach out to me directly at andie@circleci.com. Thanks again! Andie Borcz Head of Talent Acquisition andie@circleci.com

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