Gigwalk reviews

The biggest flaw with the company is the executive leadership. Unfortunately, this group looks at the people that work here as their property, not human beings. You won't see any high fives, and you won't hear "wow team/person xyz did a great job this quarter! Let's give them a round of applause!" Not only that, but you won't hear anyone from the leadership team ask how your weekend was or if there are any good dinner spots in the city, etc. The CEO is new to SaaS, and that combined with his bias towards client executive leadership (vs the people using the product) creates a slightly toxic environment for the people on the ground doing the work. His leadership has created a highly customized solution for these few large clients, and sales is stuck fitting a square peg into a round hole when pitching to new prospects. He’s an operations guy with a manufacturing background, and has made it clear he does not have a proactive Gigwalk company vision/goal, but rather a reactive “build this for them because they’re paying us now” mentality. The company will continue to be mediocre until it finds a way to sell to the masses vs being an R&D dept for a small number of enterprise clients.

If you are looking for a startup experience - there are tons of better places out there. Not that Gigwalk is completely horrible but there are just lots of better places out there - so do your homework. If you have just one job offer and you pick Gigwalk, you are in for a lot of bad surprises. Gigwalk still suffers from the day-to-day ego issues of a co-founder and the (latest, third) CEO is still figuring things out. Then sometimes have fights in front of the whole team so it can be pretty toxic in the office - and indicates the overall maturity of the leadership. At least three director level folks have quit in the last 12 months and those positions have not been filled so they definitely have a problem attracting and retaining middle management. The company has finally settled on a business plan after a lot of pivots but they don't have the patience to invest and execute over the long-term. They want results overnight and they are completely comfortable burning the team out over that. Just not ok and the results speak for themselves - every single long-standing employee has quit and moved on to better places. Why would you want to work here if you are confident and sure of your skills?