Software Developer: Great opportunity to boost your career! - Anonymous employee Jobber Employee Review

4.0
Jan 17, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of mentorship opportunities available. (Lunch and Learns, 1:1 mentorship, etc) Management is always on board with any ideas you have for your personal growth. Management is always helpful with career coaching and setting goals. Experience with a variety of technologies: Ruby on Rails, JS, Ember, Postgres, etc. Experience with the whole software development lifecycle (Planning, Development, Testing, QA, Deployment) and an awesome Agile Coach to help the team stay on track and enhance their processes! Not pigenhole-d into a role, you get experience with frontend, backend, databases, etc within the scope of iterative features. Leadership and Management very open to feedback! Super great, knowledgable and humble people to work with!

Cons

It seems like the attitude around working from home is not very positive so there are limited opportunities to do that. Starting salary is average. It seems like the company spends a lot of money on hosting extra curricular events (food + drinks) that do not have much of an impact in terms of "getting the word out" about the company. As the company gets bigger, the culture seems to be changing a bit (but that is unavoidable with any growing company). Couple salary reviews are done in a year but it takes few months for them to come into effect and are not effective immediately at the next pay check which I find a bit odd.

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Jobber Response
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Thanks for highlighting the career advancement opportunities for our team members. Personal growth is something we value a great deal at Jobber. We're launching a comprehensive compensation strategy this year. We definitely want to have a strategy in place that reflects our growing organization and the diversity of experiences our team members bring.

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1.0
Nov 26, 2024
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Pros

Not a single positive during my time at Jobber

Cons

- Leadership has ZERO strategy to compete against the other players in the market. - Way too many convoluted processes that slow everyone down - They will recruit you from another company and then let you go with absolutely no notice or reason

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3.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Pros

It's really a great business with a great product and product reputation. Work life balance is good. Honestly, I don't even mind the RTO mandates as long as it stays hybrid - the Toronto office is great. Some of the home-made tools being developed to speed up development with AI are actually pretty neat.

Cons

The culture in Engineering is turning really sour. I get the impression they're slowly trying to eliminate the People Manager role, which is "fine" until you realize that they have no interest in helping you grow and advance your career here. It's really sad to see, especially for those of us earlier in our careers who do want to move up and stick around long enough to see ourselves AND the business grow. They're trying to eliminate 1-1s under the guise of productivity and shipping out faster and getting managers more involved in dev work. And it does not look like the managers have much of a say. For the most part, you're seen as a replaceable code/feature monkey. Turnover is increasing, especially with those tenured, senior folks, and I don't think they care. Another issue I've ran into is the varying skill level of engineers. There are great engineers here. But, there are some engineers here who just entirely vibe code. And that behaviour is highly encouraged and seen as "impactful" in some teams. Well don't come crying when incidents have increased over the last 6 months then? To be fair, it is entirely team-dependent and some teams have a higher calibre, some lower.

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