CircleCI reviews

3.7

60% would recommend to a friend

(170 total reviews)
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Jim Rose

66% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

CircleCI has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 170 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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170 reviews
5.0
Dec 7, 2020

great culture, great benefits

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The management at CircleCI really believes in the company values. They are really transparent with the success and growth of the company as well as professional performance on an individual level. The benefits they offer are also great, unlimited PTO and great health insurance.

Cons

There is no 401k match.

5.0
Dec 6, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Overall great. A pretty young organization that is changing rapidly.

Cons

A pretty young organization that is changing rapidly.

3.0
Nov 28, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- The people are smart, capable, considerate, and want to solve a real problem. - Remote work is encouraged. - The space is becoming more and more important to large organizations. - I've personally, always felt supported by management (this is predicated on your team)

Cons

- Apparently, a lot of your success at CircleCI is dictated by the team that you are on. Some managers aren't as willing to develop internally. - Competing priorities are causing real problems for the business. I.e. salespeople don't care about retention so they will burn a deal pushing towards growth but that is in direct opposition to my priority on the CSM team. Doesn't seem sustainable. - There is no product vision. We basically check boxes to find feature parity with the other competitors but it's reactive. While I've found our product team is willing to talk with customers, the follow through on implementing the feedback (or even closing the feedback loop) is not a strength at the moment. - This is a very challenging product to sell/support. A lot of SRE's don't see the value in changing their CI/CD practices without a significant amount of data to back up how this will fundamentally help their bottom line. We haven't been able to effectively communicate this via our marketing strategy. - Lack of transparency. We get a lot of emails from various departments providing updates but the numbers don't seem rooted in reality. (i.e. # of SQLs goes up but revenue doesn't change).

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CircleCI Response
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Good morning, and thank you for taking time to leave your thoughts! We appreciate the feedback on all fronts! Firstly, thank you for echoing the positive experiences you had at CircleCI. Though we know it is never perfect, we have been doing a lot more work on manager development and how to make sure teams feel supported, motivated, and inspired. On the part around product vision and customer focus, thank you for outlining specifically where you see room for improvement. These types of reviews make it easier for us as a team to get the feedback and information to the appropriate people and take action. This year CircleCI will remain heavily focused on building customer relationships (both old and new) and really ensuring that we are growing and successful in the space both internally and externally. I think this work will put us on the path you're describing around having a customer focus and product vision, which should go hand-in-hand with quantifiable targets like "hitting revenue". Thank you again for your review! Chris St. Pierre Senior Manager, Recruiting Operations
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