Amazing Place to Work - Anonymous employee Metromile Employee Review

5.0
Nov 1, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working at Metromile has been a dream start-up job for me with incredibly smart and talented co-workers all driven to disrupting an industry. It’s the place to be if you like being in a high, growth, fast past environment in solving complex problems in a team environment, being creative and seeing immediate impact to the business based on the results of your work. There is no lack of opportunity here and you are only limited by your ambitions. Management is transparent and honest even when they mess up, with critical self-reflection to help everyone continually improve and make the company successful. Good management team all of whom are very accessible and down to earn with no egos other than trying to make the company successful. The company is growing quickly and I can’t wait to see where the company is a year from now. Great benefits including free lunches, snacks, drinks (including beer), outings and unlimited vacation.

Cons

It’s a start-up environment and there's a lot of work to be done so everyone works really hard. Management does believe in work-life balance but you’ll see people in the office late every night. The company is still working on putting in some process so at times things can feel a little chaotic but things are moving in the right direction.

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5.0
Oct 15, 2014
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Pros

We’ve got a great ~40 person team with really smart people that are also super fun to hang out with. Weekly happy hours, weekly beer o’clock during company demos, board game nights, karaoke, musical jam sessions, catered lunch 2x a week (sometimes 3 with in-house tech talks), are always expanding and growing, Product Managers who make it easy for you to do what you are good at, 2 week sprints / release cycles, subsidized Muni/Bart etc passes, $50/mo on gym & equipment, an amazing CEO who will also be your best bud but still someone you super respect, user-centered, and of course, car lovers. The compensation is market-rate and fair, with equity. Very flexible schedules so you don't have to worry about going to an appointment in the middle of the day or going home early for your kid's baseball game. People generally come in between 8-10 and leave between 5-7, and have a specific passion that they are working on here. Upper management cares about how you want to progress in your career, and give you plenty of opportunities to grow and learn. Very supportive team with a general sense of camaraderie, as evidenced by frequent nerf gun battles.

Cons

We're still a small startup, so there are some growing pains like small office (working on moving soon), and having to figure out best practices, processes, and work flows for your field through some trial and error, instead of having them already in place. However, it's still extremely rewarding and you have a lot of ownership in building company culture and processes for your specific field. In my 2+ year experience, the company has been pretty fast at iterating on working out kinks of being a small startup.

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