Guidebook reviews

4.1

75% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)
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Jeff Lewis

70% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

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2.0
Jan 2, 2019

Appearances are deceptive

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Pros

* Fun events and off-sites * Good perks * Good product * Nice people (some of them)

Cons

There are serious problems in upper management. The culture is something between a frat and mean girls. Previous reviews are pretty spot on, referring to it as a "cools kid club." They give promotions to their friends for roles that they have no experience in. Speaking up about it makes you a problem in their eyes. They make up excuses to fire/let go of people for that reason. There's also dating between upper management if you didn't think things could get messier. They preach "transparency" but know nothing about it. P.S. they also under pay you and expect you to work "start-up" hours

5.0
Apr 10, 2018

Great Place to Work

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Pros

Healthy engineering habits: strong peer review processes, good code hygiene, a general sense that all developers share ownership of the stack together. Managers took career development, and mentorship seriously; feedback from weekly 1:1s was sincerely heard and acted on. Strong IT team managing the corporate network, security audits, on premisses hardware, and AWS. Frequent social events -- arts and craft nights, trivia nights, happy hours to celebrate product launches and milestones, a yearly all-expense paid company retreat to Tahoe. Truly flexible work from home and vacation policies.

Cons

Some growth targets have not been hit

4.0
Mar 22, 2018

Amazing people work here.

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Pros

I love the people I work with. I am happy to come to work each day, and I regularly stay after hours to spend time socially with them...happy hours, parties, game nights, etc. Company is good to sponsor these things several times a month. My role is what I expected it to be. The things I do day-to-day are what I was brought on for, and I also get to take on new and interesting challenges when I speak up to my manager with interest in doing so. I feel there is growth potential in my role, and I feel Guidebook prioritizes that for its employees on a broad scale.

Cons

Things are always changing - mostly a result of being in the tech space and having to align with the regulations of Apple + Google. This isn't a con in itself, it keeps the work dynamic and interesting in my opinion, and forces us to stay on our toes and ahead of our peers. The con is that some employees (many of whom have quit and posted reviews here recently) don't handle change well, and bring a negative attitude to the office. This can create a toxic environment. Management tries to handle these cases as quickly and fairly as possible, but there can be pain points that remain even after negative employees depart (voluntarily or involuntarily).

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