Instawork reviews

2.9

43% would recommend to a friend

(386 total reviews)
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Sumir Meghani

47% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Instawork has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 386 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Instawork employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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386 reviews
1.0
Dec 19, 2023

Avoid at all costs.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Free lunch 2/3 days you come in. - Benefits are decent. - Office location is ideal for commuters.

Cons

- Micromanaging and the illusion of autonomy at every level. - One of the Sales leaders oversteps cross-functionally, attempting to make decisions and hold weight for departments they have no insight into. This leader is the reason for a large number of employees leaving and general dissatisfaction. Leadership seems afraid to do anything about it (or doesn't care). - Leadership does not exemplify the values the company touts. - CEO takes almost all calls at his desk (open seating plan), but a large majority of the calls are not appropriate to have within earshot of employees. Some of those calls shouldn't be taking place in the office at all. - Management runs on fear tactics and bullying- will transition to a full RTO before long. - Widespread unspoken fear of job security, and unhappiness in office. Turnover rates are insane. - Layoffs following $60M series D funding (3mo after funding) show that the company cares more about profit than investing in the employee experience and retention. (Company morale has not recovered from the layoffs, and has declined) - Company would rather churn and burn than invest long-term in employees. (no pips, career & growth trajectory planning, little to no org expansion, ERGs, etc) - Office is full of cliques and blatant favoritism. - Multiple cases of employees being given the green light to work remotely full-time and shortly thereafter are terminated. -

1.0
Aug 13, 2021

This company is a joke

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

working remotely so you don't have to interact with leadership in person on a daily basis.

Cons

This is the worst company I've ever worked for. They think they are the next Grant Cardone when in reality, at least 1 person left our team every single month due to the incompetent sales leadership. There is no HR department, for a reason. Think about that. There is no HR department. Because of this, sales leadership can say whatever they'd like with 0 consequences aside from losing great talent regularly. I've been a part of several start ups and this is by far the worst. A complete joke. I wouldn't recommend my worst enemy working for Instawork. This is by far the most toxic, worst company I've ever been a part of. There is a revolving door on the sales team for a reason. I would run, not walk, away from this company.

1.0
Mar 20, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Knowledge in the hospitality industry, work closely with sales team.

Cons

I am so disappointed on how Instawork treated there employees, but it didn't happen overnight. I had been working at Instawork for close to a year now. At first joining Instawork, there is a lot of exciting stuff taking place, the product is constantly changing in a good way and everyone is excited. After the first two months I could see the true company and its values. I would come out of working days crying for the way they treated me. Leadership roles would tell me I wasn't good enough. I knew this wasn't okay, they would tell our sales team that they we aren't good and we can walk out of this company if we want to. Having a culture like that created in sales is a horrible situation to be in. I was scared of communicating with them and would try to avoid them as much as possible. They would ask you to stay way past 8 hours and to come in on weekends, if you didn't agree you were automatically associated as someone who didn't care. Favorites were displayed fast which is common in companies, but not all of them were top performers but being treated the best. At the end the leadership team felt like an empire where they would stop telling us what was happening in the company until they had to. The quota requirements month to month had no data in the past to confirm that was the norm. I would never recommend my friend to join this company.

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