H1 reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(126 total reviews)
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Ariel Katz

82% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

H1 has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 126 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The H1 employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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126 reviews
1.0
Apr 14, 2025

Toxic Leadership and No Real Product Vision

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The CEO seemed well-intentioned, though often didn't trust teams to do their jobs and would micromanage. A few colleagues were incredibly smart and passionate, but their voices were often ignored or pushed out.

Cons

My experience at H1 was extremely disappointing. The work culture was toxic and demoralizing, driven largely by poor leadership at the top. The co-founder/CTO was emotionally volatile and displayed narcissistic behavior that created a fearful and unstable working environment. Across the organization, there was a clear lack of true product leadership. Instead, leaders often enabled this toxic culture rather than addressing it. Many of the most talented team members left during my time there, unable to tolerate the dysfunction. Leadership was ineffective, territorial, and contributed heavily to the toxic atmosphere. Product development was not driven by customer needs. Despite direct feedback from users, we were repeatedly told to disregard it and instead build whatever the CEO or CTO wanted—regardless of business or user value.

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H1 Response
1y
Hi former colleague - hope you are well. If there's more feedback to share, I'd love to receive it at devin.basinger@h1.co. Our product function has gone through a number of changes over the past few years and would be useful to understand the timing of your tenure in that context. We survey the team regularly (anonymously) and listen to the comments and have seen real improvements in this regard.
1.0
Jan 7, 2025

Narcissistic Founders - Product People be warned!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are some great colleagues across Product, Engi, and Design

Cons

The founders are excessively narcissistic and toxic. Especially the one that runs the data org. Only his ideas are good ideas. Spews nonsense no one can understand and legit have had VPs tell me to just smile and nod. Got tired of shipping great products that made a difference to the market and having founders yell at me because minute details weren’t reviewed with them.

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H1 Response
1y
Wish you the best, former colleague. Feel free to email any feedback to me at devin.basinger@h1.co if you would like to share more.
3.0
Jun 14, 2024

Good WLB, low pay, many layoff

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- fully remote - work-life balance - no overtime work - the benefit is okay... need to pay a lot in insurance

Cons

- too many layoffs, you always feel anxious when people working around you are leaving - overtime work is not required but on the other hand, you won't get promoted when you sign in and off on time every day. - low pay, less than a 3% raise the whole year which is very disappointing.

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