Deepgram reviews

4.4

80% would recommend to a friend

(9 total reviews)

Scott Stephenson

75% approve of CEO

89% positive business outlook

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2.0
May 2, 2023

Not heard and just a task mule

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Great product, actually saw full potential in the product - Competitive salary - Smart teammates, most people are truly there to help you - Good benefits

Cons

- Upper management doesn't do much to keep employees in the loop on both product roadmap decisions, but also on hiring decisions. We were constantly changing plans with no reason to back them up, at least not communicated - They hire leaders and directors with no leadership skills, and do not involve potential direct reports in the hiring decision. They only look at past qualifications and company names of hired leaders but don't see if the manager hires are a personality fit to help their team feel empowered or grow on their career path -- and act surprised when turnover is high on these teams. Yeah, it's great that they helped ABC company scale, but at what cost? Did you consider if they would be a good fit for your team? If they had the best interest of individuals in mind? A leader is only as good as their entire team is. - Micromanaged

5.0
Jan 23, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- the company's product, and the day-to-day work, is substantive; Deepgram is building a product that has real value for the world; as employees, we can feel this -- we're not building a silly app, and the challenges before us are not trifling. - there is still more work to do than people to do it; as employees, we have a great deal of individual ownership of the projects we work on; this can be either empowering and liberating, or stressful and lonely, depending on one's personal needs and motivations. - Deepgram is still a startup, and hence still needs to be extremely nimble and responsive in the face of events and developments in the software (particularly the AI) world; this can be either fun and exciting, or disorienting and frustrating, again depending on personal needs and motivations.

Cons

- remote work; Deepgram's employees are spread out geographically, and there are few opportunities for in-person work and collaboration; when you work with such awesome people, it sucks not to be able to break bread together at lunch, or have a beer after work. - the pay isn't as much as it would be for similar positions at big tech companies.

5.0
Jan 23, 2023

A chance to see the future of AI

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working on cutting edge problems, real customers with real problems, good VC funding. Many Deepgrammers are very sharp and all Deepgrammers are incredibly hard working. Deepgram is fairly culturally diverse for a Silicon Valley AI company. This is partly due to its "remote first" approach to hiring. Deepgrammers as a set are diverse in their intellectual and extra-curriculaar pursuits, with quite a number of brewers, artists, writers, astronomers, sailors, surfers etc. Of course, since employees live all over the globe, this means we don't get to do these things together... DG salaries are generous, bonuses ample. Deepgrammers have a lot of latitude to take time off when the want to. Medical benefits are good. If you work on the technical side, you will have access to vast amounts of data and an increasing library of cool AI, ML and engineering tools.

Cons

Communication is definitely a problem at Deepgram. New hires don't get a chance to learn about all the products, the tech or how it all works together. Information is siloed in teams. Good ideas sometimes get hand-waved away without much conversations. We work hard to achieve goals, and have little time to plan our own betterment. The causes for the communications breakdowns are manifold. However, Deepgram does make a concerted effort to overcome the communications challenges of a "remote first" company, working on a series of A.I. products meant to automate core-human capacities: transcription, language understanding, etc. If Deepgram can fix some or many of its communications issues so that all teams have access to the same knowledge, it will be an unstoppable company.

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