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Fleetsmith

Acquired by Apple

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The best of most worlds - Business Operations Fleetsmith Employee Review

5.0
Oct 23, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of great things at Fleetsmith. The company is growing at a pace that rivals other best-in-class SaaS businesses. The vision is fairly focused, and provides direction for the company as a whole. Comp and benefits are about as good as you'll get at a startup of this size - market cash and equity with solid benefits, but nothing close to the Facebooks or Googles of the world. Talent is good - some great, some okay, meets a fairly high standard; wouldn't describe as "the next big thing" where the best-of-the-best are racing to be, but sets the minimum bar quite high. The people are nice almost across the board - few to none in the company would fall under the buckets of a*hole or extremely low EQ. Work life balance is great, significantly better than most companies of this caliber. Most of the time, a touch over the normal 40 hour work week, with fairly flexible hours. Occasional need to put in extra time. PTO policy is very liberal and people take a healthy amount of time off.

Cons

The company suffers from the same issues that many in this stage face. Too many priorities to choose from, a continual feeling of minor anxiety as the company propels itself with forward momentum without ever being fully balanced. Sometimes the focus of the company jumps from one thing to the next a little haphazardly, or a bit wobbly. Many of its leaders are in their roles for the first time, and as such, sometimes have some holes in where they focus, or are still developing as leaders. Communication from management could be a bit more transparent.

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5.0
May 7, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Emphasis on cross-organizational collaboration -Encourages employees to manage up and "Act like you own the place" (Core value) -Level of transparency in Leadership -Zack -Ken -Jesse -Stevie

Cons

Nothing really comes to mind, but would love to see more growth in the engineering section!

5.0
Feb 7, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Leadership is as transparent as can be. All goals and initiatives are constantly being questioned and discussed very openly. No high-level choices are kept behind hidden doors. - Ability to have an impact. At previous companies, you were asked to work on things that sometimes did not have the biggest impact on the product or even the company. Sometimes an entire sub-product was thrown away because of lack of foresight that it was useful for one very large customer but was it useful for more? Fleetsmith, as a product, is treated as an evolving product to solve evolving problems and not just a assembly of various tools that were thrown into a product. - Fleetsmith is customer obsessed. From support, to business operations, to engineering -- all parts of Fleetsmith are obsessed to provide customers with the utmost positive and pleasant experience. Whether that be providing world class support to the smallest and largest customers or designing and engineering a product that tackles IT device management as seamless and painless as possible. - One of the greatest things that stand out about Fleetsmith is the culture. Its very collaborative, positive and filled with jokes. Even though there has been crazy growth, the culture has been consistently great (kudos to the talent and hiring team)! While there are stressful times due to ambitious goals (common to any startup culture), the people are there to support each other and I look forward to coming in each day to work with these awesome, caring people.

Cons

Not too many cons I can think of :)

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