Intercom Engineering reviews

4.5

99% would recommend to a friend

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Eoghan McCabe

100% approve of CEO

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4 reviews
5.0
Jul 21, 2017
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Pros

- The people: an exceptional CEO and senior leadership team. Caring and supportive people/HR teams. World class engineering, product, design, and marketing folks. Throughout the company, most are very, very smart, and you seldom encounter big egos. - The ambition: the company is aiming very high. There's a infectious sense that those around you are doing the work of their lives. - The business: one of the fastest growing companies of its generation, products that customers genuinely love, great investors. - The culture: surprisingly grown up. People are dedicated to their work, but tend to go home when its done. There's a special mixture of kindness and high expectations. Humor and seriousness. - The mission: people there talk about the mission a lot. That's true in lots of companies. But teams have a habit of thinking very long term, in a joined up way, which feels unique.

Cons

- Intimidating for new people: there's a healthy culture of taking bets and risks overall, but there's also a strong sense of taste and opinion, which can make it difficult for newcomers to figure out where and how to leave their mark. - Occasionally top down: many of the leaders in the company were ICs not too long ago, and many were excellent in their disciplines. Some could do better in entrusting new layers of managers and makers to do their thing with freedom to succeed or fail. I think this is a stage that most great companies go through, and it improved during my time.

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Thank you! Yes, 100% regarding empowering new layers more. We're definitely in the middle of a transition right now. There are some parts of the company where we've figured this out well. Others where we need to do way, way better. I really want to get there, and I'm hopeful that we will soon enough.
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