Hustle reviews

2.9

42% would recommend to a friend

(52 total reviews)

Steve Pease

57% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Hustle has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 52 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Hustle employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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52 reviews
1.0
Jan 11, 2019

Lack of direction and experience

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Solid pay, cool office, diverse culture

Cons

An entire sales org was hired without any strategic direction and a majority of the sales org had not come in with much prior Saas experience - or at least Saas experience that was successful or scaling. The "Growth" department has the loudest voice in the decision making room but actually has no demonstrated success growing an organization - as many marketers are, they are very adept at shining the light on things that make then look successful, but often at the expense of others. Another red flag was their search for a Chief Revenue Officer - why are the big name investors not presenting candidates for this role? You are asking employees for referrals for a CRO role? They'll tell you that the ARR growth is massive when in reality very few people have an understanding of ARR and even fewer people have realized that you actually need to send invoices to receive payments. Operationally, this place is a mess. A top notch COO is needed to come in be the adult in the room even if that means sacrificing the culture somewhat, otherwise they'll run out of money inside of 12 months - hence the multiple rounds of layoffs. Beware the employee count on Linkedin is way off - 190 people as of today but I count 30 I know don't work there anymore and I wasn't around for the latest round of layoffs this week.

1.0
May 21, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Look at the list of clients and imagine what it’s like to work with them. It’s better. Things are fun because they want to improve morale so every week is a party or team build. This week it’s the movies!

Cons

Having already raised a lot of money the company is looking for more because the CEO blew the Series B in a year. The company is still in single digit millions in revenue. Do that math and realize it’s overspending. The market isn’t strong and Hustle doesn’t have a good product. The most depressing thing about Hustle is a channel called competitors where every week we see companies doing the same thing cheaper, faster or better. Texting is a feature and Hustle should have raised and priced accordingly. The CEO keeps saying it’s getting better and he’s not wrong that product execution and revenue improved in 2019. Doesn’t change the doom. The CEO is a con artist and has likely committed fraud by misleading investors and employees.

2.0
Mar 4, 2019

Better look elsewhere; sinking ship

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good office location Unlimited PTO Clean air to breathe

Cons

CEO is avoidant Favoritism is strong Culture is predatory and there is no team work People communicate badly, if at all Product is hollow and needs huge work Hemorrhaging money as a result of bad hires at large scale, internal lies C-level lied with "no more layoffs" and why they even happened to begin with After second massive layoff, morale is low low low low Office is empty and dreary as side effect of said layoffs Too many broken parts/holes in internal ops and nobody to fix them Too much of a focus on diversity (hire QUALIFIED people, and not for quantity)

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