Run by a cult - Full Stack Software Engineer Jobber Employee Review

1.0
Mar 5, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Some nice co-workers and very few good engineers . Very few good core product teams. Ok pay. Remote.

Cons

Very ok product but the company drink its own kool-aid. Everyone is busy over here to protect their backs and thus there is a cultish environment over here. If you are a nay-sayer or a person who likes to correct mistakes, forget that you will ever grow in this place. Also, you need to know the right person whose boots you can lick if you want to grow. The codebase is a tech-debt nightmare. Mediocrity thrives here. Currently, running around like a headless chicken. Want to act like a FAANG company but nowhere near one. And yeah, the less we talk about the managers the better. They have hired some really incompetent bunch of managers (and directors) in tech who have no idea about how to run tech teams . They let go of some really good managers. Along with that, there are only a bunch of engineers who are basically ruling the roost. They come up with some unwanted projects and work on them instead of fixing the existing product and its features. There is a constant tussle to hog the limelight here as company rewards these people instead of people who are actually making impact. Join at your own risk.

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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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