Great Company in a Fast-Growing Market - Anonymous employee Localytics Employee Review

5.0
Oct 20, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Great product with unique differentiation in data-driven marketing - most mobile engagement companies claim it because it's more important than ever, yet none truly do it well other than Localytics -Very smart people with big ideas, and always willing to help -Unquestionably the best enterprise customer list in the mobile engagement market -Incredible opportunity in a rapidly growing market. Great experience from a learning and career standpoint as it sits at the intersection of analytics, marketing and mobile. -Challenging work. Some like this, some don't. I think it's a pro and attracts the right people.

Cons

-Fairly hands-off training, which promotes autonomy, but does require resourcefulness. This is to be expected with most startups. -Needs in the market change rapidly so it's easy to get pulled in many different directions -Sales and marketing can be cumbersome due to market fragmentation as well as it being a nascent market

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Pros

+ Generally friendly workplace, can be a little clique-y on some teams, but overall, people here are easy to get along with. + Can't speak to the other departments, but engineering hires very well. Coworkers are all very smart, capable people who are bullish on improvements, care deeply about their craft, and don't settle for stupid hacks. + The work is both challenging and interesting. + People actually care about tech debt here. + The work environment is relaxing and offers generous vacation time (untracked) and work from home policies. + Management encourages a culture of openness and transparency that while not perfect, at least makes you feel comfortable voicing your opinion. Whether anything comes out of that probably varies by manager, but my managers are all good folk so I don't worry about that =).

Cons

- If you work here you gotta be capable of giving yourself direction and making/clarifying important decisions on your own because management sometimes drops the ball by throwing out half finished requirements and expects you to fill in the blanks. I'm probably making it sound worse than it actually is, but regardless you gotta be a go-getter. - There is a major lack of communication between departments and this hurts product focus among other things and is pretty much the reason for the consistent annoyance of direction and scope changes for feature work and why the product can't always get the improvements it needs. - No matching 401K. - Free lunch is provided on Tuesdays, not Fridays. I know the complaint is petty, but I can't get over it.

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