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3.0
Jul 11, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Sprout has a great vibe. A great location in the City. It has some very hard working employees. You get company laptops in just about any position (Macs usually) that you're free to use at home. There is tons of growth, and you are more or less free to push your own opinions into any process. Engineering can be wild-west at times (meaning you have freedom to create). Extremely flat culture with little management intervention. The hiring process is very strict and the code is typically without much baggage (since most of it is so new). There are many exciting new products and avenues for learning (including a fully stocked library of tech books). You are free to setup your 'station' however you like it with just about as much hardware as you want. Most engineers are running MacBookPros with 16GB ram and Core-i7 hardware so there is little to complain about that. Free lunches.

Cons

If you have a family, consider another company. There is no Dental or Vision company pay for family healthcare, leading to hundreds a month for that coverage on top of the hundreds you're already paying for the healthcare. While many employees have families and there is a lot that are expecting, many in charge do not have children yet; so don't expect any family catering (there is no discrimination; but late meetings and non-family events are common). You have 1 option for 401k and there is 0 contribution. Don't expect bonuses, they are rare and pay-raises are extremely unlikely as the company tries to incur grow. Pay on that note is very low compared to competitors in the same space as well as companies with comparable jobs; as much as 15% below market from others on GlassDoor. Leadership really likes to be very secretive. Expect to be annoyed by decisions that will affect you without ever being told a reason for them. It's much easier to get ahead if you hang out with the management teams; because when they like you, you're work matters less (hence favoritism).

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Sprout Social Response
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Thanks for the feedback. We are committed to creating a comfortable, transparent and collaborative environment for all our employees so I'm disappointed to hear about some of your experiences. We value and consider all feedback and we'll continue to find ways to improve but I wanted to address a couple of your specific benefit concerns here. First, as Sprout matures we continuously look for ways to enhance employee benefits. We recently rolled out expanded health benefits that include majority employer contributions to family dental and vision in addition to the large contribution to family health. Second, we're considering financial planning benefits and hope to have retirement contribution at some point in the future, among other improvements we'd like to make. Thank you for your ongoing contribution and feedback.

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5.0
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Pros

Good Work Culture. Really Good. At least from what I can tell.

Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Sprout Social has a genuinely friendly, collaborative culture. People are smart, welcoming, and easy to work with across teams, and there's a real sense of camaraderie that makes the day-to-day enjoyable.

Cons

Where things consistently fall short is follow-through. Programs launch with a lot of enthusiasm and visibility, but the operational discipline to sustain, measure, and iterate on them after launch tends to fade. This creates a pattern where good ideas don't get the long-term investment they need to actually stick or show results, which can be frustrating for people who are trying to build durable, scalable systems. There also doesn't seem to be a clear long-term plan that the field can execute against. Priorities can feel like they shift often, which makes it hard to know where to focus or what direction to move in. Getting direct, straightforward answers from leadership on strategy and direction was often difficult.

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