Nest reviews

3.7

83% would recommend to a friend

(202 total reviews)

Marwan Fawaz

98% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Nest has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 202 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nest 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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202 reviews
2.0
Dec 22, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

• Friendly colleagues with great attitudes • Google perks • Best cafe; even better than Google's • Decent impactful projects • Good W/L balance

Cons

Engineering management is incompetent. I had little confidence in my manager's technical ability and the advice and suggestions he made were often horrible. Instead of leading the team, he often sought to stroke his own ego with bad technical advice which left some on the team chasing red herrings. This wouldn't be a huge deal if he was a good people-person and actually cared about my career growth, but he didn't. Our 1:1's mostly involved him asking about my current progress on projects instead of helping foster career growth. Instead of being the tie breaker for team resolutions he often remained neutral, or even worse presented inferior alternatives than the options at hand.

5.0
Jun 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work with amazing people everyday who push you to improve and learn. Takes pride in building products that make a difference to the planet and a true passion to achieve excellence.

Cons

Plan projects and resources more carefully. We seem to have a very low threshold to say yes to new projects and a very high threshold to cancel and move on.

4.0
Apr 5, 2016

A Great Place to Expland/Learn/Grow

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I was good at my subject matter before, but Nest has made me great. They give you the opportunity to really expand, learn, & grow. Once you master your field, they encourage you to reach out to other teams to pick up new skills. Plenty of companies want you to just keep doing what you're doing because you're good at it and they don't want to have to go through the hassle of replacing you. At Nest they just want you keep growing. Be the best [insert your name here] you can be. Once I feel I've plateaued they provide new and exciting challenges. I've met many great people there and made many great relationships. Because I'm allowed to talk to any person on any team I've made great relationships. A secondary benefit of these relationships I've been able to get help from them on my projects and in return I provide my knowledge and insight on their projects. I definitely do more than what I was hired to do, but voluntarily. No extra work has been forced on me.

Cons

Meetings where not much gets accomplished occur a lot. Not because great ideas aren't tossed around, but because it seems there's no one person in the meeting that writes down the minutes and sends them to everyone that attended the meeting (which some times contains people that don't need to be there trying to offer their opinion). Great ideas often get lost and forgotten. If your great ideas are finally agreed upon and added to the road map, expect to push back the complete date multiple times due to a lack of resources and everyone else's project/ideas may be consistently prioritized over yours. I like to use the phrase "too many cooks in the kitchen".

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