Pebl reviews

2.8

31% would recommend to a friend

(421 total reviews)

Francoise Brougher

36% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Pebl has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 421 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Pebl employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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421 reviews
1.0
May 19, 2024

Pretend Paradise

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Remote work. -Freedom to work internationally or within other states. -Work/life balance is decent.

Cons

-Executive leadership can come across as combative and indifferent towards team. -Several benefits stripped from employees, including education stipend. This discourages in-house education and deters knowledge-seekers from wanting to stay. -Advancement opportunities only given to managers that talk even if what they're saying amounts to nothing. Doers are ignored with no credit due. -Company is purely reactionary instead of proactive, causing rift between teams, customer, and mission. -"Too little Too late' hiring practices has caused bottleneck in getting talent where it is needed. -Poor support when it comes to ERGs or any diversity efforts. "make it work" mentality is off-putting to those that are already pushed to their limits by their day-to-day. -High turnover due to in-team fighting and unrealistic expectations. Especially true between Product and Ops org. Other orgs have to act as the peace-keeper and get burned. -Lack of organization, standardization, and managerial accountability.

1.0
Jan 16, 2024

Hostile work environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fully remote work is a plus but you can find several other companies that offer this.

Cons

A work environment where unrealistic expectations are consistently set with minimal support. Managers fail to provide guidance and support and instead, focus on barking orders while enjoying extended holidays, leaving the team overworked and underappreciated. A lot of the managers don’t even know what needs to be done which is why they can’t offer support. The lack of support and accountability has led to significant burnout, stress and trauma, requiring me to seek outside therapy to cope. I would advise potential employees to carefully consider the impact on their mental health before joining this company. If you are a top performer who has invested a lot of money and time on their education and professional expertise and value their reputation and career, I would not recommend this company.

1.0
Aug 16, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There is no shortage of great people, teams, and wizards that have kept this rust bucket afloat, or have joined with bright eyes with dreams of a great workplace and purposeful mission. If you're not a manager, director, or VP, you'll be supported by those in the trenches with you. You'll know who the battle-tested veterans are who know the secrets to surviving, and who the ones that are still recovering from whiplash a few weeks into joining. The company operates in a space which is solving a real problem that benefits people. Many mistakenly still believe that this is the primary mission. There used to be great focus, planning, strategy, and execution at most levels. There was a competitive edge, an engine of immense growth, and a shining future. Once upon a time, during the stable eras, you would enjoy great benefits around health and family, meaningful work, and you were treated like a person. Hell, you might've even thought there was a good culture. But these times of old have long passed, and this stark fact is palpable at every level of the organization.

Cons

This is one of the longest games of hot potato and musical chairs I've ever seen. But someone is graciously paying for it all, so the game must go on. There is no cohesion, structure, guidance, or any proper training among teams. There's very little (serious) interest in building any long-term value, and zero accountability from management for all this. Every quarter there is a new direction, a new mission, a new initiative, or a new goalpost. Half the time things are getting canned, the other half things are getting to customers half-baked. No one can explain why, and the further up you go, the more vague and arbitrary it gets. If you peel back the onion of despair, some teams are barely treading water with a view to the next quarter at the farthest. Teams are frantically pleasing managers, who are frantically pleasing directors, ad infinitum. Just keep swimming until you can't, then keep swimming some more. Many have already drowned without much commotion, but no one dares look back, and the quarterly KPIs must flow. Management is perpetually in a state of a puppet learning to walk, except it's head and limbs keep falling off (or forcibly removed), only to be haphazardly repaired with twigs and glue. The good leaders have all left, and the ones that still remain, their passions extinguished. You can chalk it up to growing pains, but after so many years I'd describe it more like the pain that accompanies a cancerous growth. I don't write this lightly - I've seen my fair share of infighting, undermining, rug-pulling, factionalism, power struggles, and turf wars - and all before our morning stand-up. As everyone has said before, you better be sure you are on the winning side, or you end up in the mud. My 2 cents, this culture is better suited for a civil war in a dictatorship state.

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