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
2.0
Feb 28, 2021

Went downhill quick

Recommend
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Pros

Work with talented people DevOps a good space to be in right now

Cons

Management unwilling to promote from within Workload does not match up with salary, asked to do a lot for below market pay Constant turnover due to managerial decisions has affected morale

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CircleCI Response
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Hello, thank you for taking time to leave feedback. While we're disappointed this was your experience here, we wanted to make sure we took time to point out some of the areas we've identified as areas for growth and development. The People team is currently rolling out programs that address learning opportunities (Udemy), growth, and career movement due to similar feedback in the past. In tandem, we're currently working through and launching programs aimed at manager development and creating top manager behaviors that encourage balance, reward and recognition, and high morale. Thank you again for addressing the issue and identifying growth opportunities for us to address further as we curate and launch these programs. Chris St. Pierre Senior Manager, Recruiting Operations
3.0
Sep 18, 2020

A rough ride ahead

Recommend
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Pros

Remote flexibility, some unique and truly wonderful people, CI/CD space is interesting and challenging, shipping Clojure code to production systems, mid-level management has your back.

Cons

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.

2.0
Sep 7, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

People there really wanted to make a difference, and worked very hard to do so. You can tell a lot of people cared about the projects and features they were working on. There was quite a bit of autonomy and a good work life balance. I got hired during a time when salaries were inflated, so for me, pay was quite decent compared to the market. Benefits were average for a tech company. I would give a 2.5 out of 5 if halves were allowed.

Cons

Benefits were average for a tech company. It's a very established startup with an option plan that isn't too appealing, since the company is still private after all that time, with what is now a floundering offering. Vision from leadership was all over the place and felt chaotic. Management was not great as a result, and there was no real path for career development. A lot of things that should have been simple ended up with too many hands involved (mostly from the top down), and got unnecessarily complicated. Getting things done was difficult because everyone had opinions, which often clashed. It would take days to get a response out of some people. It was an incredibly frustrating environment to work in. The company has had two rounds of layoffs in about a six month timeframe, and I genuinely believe if leadership had a clear vision for the company and product these could have been avoided.

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