Humble (leadership knows best), supportive (of the investors), give a sh*t (about the company) - Software Engineer Jobber Employee Review

1.0
May 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Chances are, any people you will work with directly are pretty great. But that's genuinely true of people everywhere. You'll get a lot of socks and t-shirts, so if you don't have an Old Navy or similar close to where you live, that's a definite plus. Everyone is constantly doing and learning things for the first time, so you will have ample opportunity to make mistakes and learn.

Cons

You will be significantly underpaid, and not in a way that's cute-because-we're-a-scrappy-startup anymore. Your managers will either do what they can to help you, or do what they can to help themselves, and neither of those will be enough, because Jobber is a sales organization, not a product company, and this is reflected in nearly every decision that is made. Not that you will necessarily know, because upper management & executives will happily make decisions that undermine or overrule other employees with no notice or explanation. Jobber cares much more about winning "best place to work" awards than it does about actually making it a good place to work (see the first point above), and is absolutely 100% committed to being politically and socially "neutral". Maybe ignoring the world around you is good for business, but it sure makes people who work for you feel like they don't matter. If you learn to keep your mouth shut about it you will do fine.

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1.0
Nov 26, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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