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Nest reviews

3.7

83% would recommend to a friend

(202 total reviews)

Marwan Fawaz

98% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.2

Culture & values

3.2

Work/Life balance

3.1

Career opportunities

3.0

Diversity & inclusion

3.0

Senior management

3.0

Compensation and benefits

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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Reviews by job title

202 reviews
1.0
Oct 8, 2014

"Bad Leadership and Company Culture"

Operations manager
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good benefits after the Google Acquisition (free meals, great 401K and health benefits) - Excellent space in the "automated home" with a lot of potential

Cons

- No clear vision and bad direction from its leaders. Product launches are never within schedule or products are shipped too quickly without the proper testing. - Inexperienced executive management, no real leaders to look up to. - Too many egos and wrong individuals appointed to managerial roles. - Treats its super star employees as "second class citizens" and those employees are starting to leave the company. - Teams are competing against each other instead of working together creating a very hostile environment. - Horrible work/life balance. Employes work very long hours and things still don't get done. Management doesn't seem to care about what is happening internally. - Bad environment and overall culture.

1.0
Apr 17, 2015

First wave of exits, next round in July?

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work with a solid management team that writes fake Glassdoor reviews. TF is the next Jobs. Google will continue to dump buckets of money in our lap. People love buying thermostats every 3 years, so that new version with larger screen is sure to fly off the shelf. Take over for all the people leaving after their 1 year Google cliff just hit.

Cons

There isn't a lot I can add that other low reviewers haven't already pointed out. Do your homework before you join this company.

3.0
Mar 9, 2015

Software Engineer

Software engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

IoT the hot segment to work now + Google Benefits Used to be a great place to work before acquisition.

Cons

- Poor work life balance - No employee care After Google acquisition Nest grew so fast and it brought lot of people from Apple, it diluted Nest culture and this is more of an Apple now. Problem is most of the management from Apple were not used to make decision they want Jobs to make decisons, the same continues here and they need Tony's approval for everything from deciding HipChat or Hangout for internal communication to how the UI should be. The most impacted team is the "Apps team", this is the front face for Nest so every small thing has to be approved by Tony, so design will be delayed and the engineer team has to cover it up working on weekends and long hours. Similarly the "IE team" is run my first time managers who have no idea to stand up for their team and they are just busy in managing their upstream. So if you are in any one of these teams who will go through some hard time. Because of the recent mess Nest haven't released any major product or App release since Google acquisition (which is more than an year now). Ask around about Nest & TGIF questions you will get more about Nest Culture.

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