Low Pay, Unreasonable Expectations, Unsupportive Culture, Lack of empathy and Extreme lack of benefits and compensation - Anonymous Jobber Employee Review

1.0
Sep 4, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I used to really enjoy the culture, the people, and the values. However, over the past 2-3 years thats entirely changed.

Cons

Jobber notoriously undervalues and underpays its employees. It claims to be at market but is far from it. It further puts in place policies that are presented in a "positive" light because apparently we're all naive and stupid and can't read between the lines. They cut benefits, cut stock options, implemented a new favouritism stock and cash bonus program whereby a manager can "nominate" you for a reward at the end of the year. No milestones, or criteria you need to meet in order to achieve this bonus. Its just whether or not you're well liked and get enough face time with the right people. Again not about the actual work you get done or the quality of your work. Its all about optics at Jobber. Leadership is extremely disconnected from the day to day of departments and individual team members. They have insane expectations and yet refuse to hire more to support the growing organization thereby overwhelming their existing teams. I've never worked for a company whereby so many people have to take 2-3 month stress leaves because its too much. Why is that a thing? Why is that a cultural practice that you would want to take part in?? Why not just hire more and provide your employees the proper work life balance. Furthermore, it is consistently rumoured that individuals have been fired or "laid-off" because they simply disagreed with certain leadership and had a different vision for their department, product, or whatever they may have been responsible for. What the heck is the point of that? There is a real lack of innovation in this company, you can't go creating your own path or recommending solutions or new paths forward. Its all about what the leaders think will fill their pockets more and increase their share price. Remember they cut stock option grants for current employees so not like you can get a larger share of the success, even though you're the one breaking your back to raise the profile of the company.

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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
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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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