PermitFlow reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(63 total reviews)

Francis Thumpasery

86% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

PermitFlow has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 63 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PermitFlow 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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63 reviews
5.0
Jun 3, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

PermitFlow is an early stage startup so there is a ton of work to do. If you're like me and thrive with a full plate of tasks - 'drinking from the firehose' as they say - you'll love it here. Excellent product market fit, not much competition, and a large TAM are a great recipe for this company to really take off. In-office perks like forkable lunch and frequent happy hours/team-building events are a huge postiive. Leadership is great, too, made up of extremely intelligent and motivated people. As a middle manager, Francis is a great CEO, it's refreshing and motivating to have a leader who truly cares about every single aspect of the business. I've said throughout my career - "I never want to feel like the smartest person in the room in a leadership meeting" and I haven't felt anywhere close to that at PermitFlow!

Cons

PermitFlow is an early-stage startup -- there's a lot of work to do. If you don't want to work hard, can't think on your feet, and don't adapt to change well this wouldn't be a great place to work

5.0
Mar 2, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- High growth startup - Exposure to many areas of the business you wouldn't be exposed to at other companies - Was encouraged to be thought leader in my role heavily which I enjoyed - Worked directly with CEO & CTO - very easy to work with and very open/transparent - Highly ownership oriented - Highly feedback friendly - Great team members to work with - Fair pay / benefits compared against market

Cons

- It's an early stage startup so that comes with the typical ambiguity that you'd expect at any early stage startup. This was fine for me, but mine not be fine for others - Some tools that would have made life easer weren't in place, though there was always a solution to make it work

5.0
May 24, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Overall have really enjoyed my experience here after pivoting from big tech. It's exactly what I was looking for from a startup -- fast-paced, high ownership & agency, tons of opportunity for input and growth - Eng-led culture - if you have a good idea and can back it up, it will likely become part of the roadmap - Selfless eng culture without politics. We all care about the same end goal so collaboration and learning is high - This is a constant push/pull at a startup but it feels like we have a good balance of being hacky and moving fast without sacrificing quality & robustness of our platform - Pretty much everyone at the company cares deeply about what we are doing, whether they come from an environmental (solar), affordable housing, or person angle. Smart people that care make for a great combo - Pretty transparent culture, great opportunity to learn how to build & scale a company - Upwards feedback is heard and acted upon, I feel like cross-functional planning & coordination is getting better, unblocking smoother rollouts of new initiatives - Company growth is genuinely exciting. This is not a very crowded space, and what we can do with good technical solutions (and targeted use of AI) can really transform the current archaic processes I haven't experienced any of the micro-management or over-analyzing explained in other reviews. In general I've felt like all decisions are explained well and upwards feedback is taken and heard. Engineering projects tend to be ambiguous and exciting, with as much or as little autonomy as you want.

Cons

- People care a lot, and are very opinionated. Everyone feels like an owner of our product (which is a good thing) but that means that "disagree & commit" can be harder to come by - Normal growing pains of a new engineering team: how do we measure success of projects? How high-fidelity do our roadmaps need to be? How confident do we need to be in something before working on it?

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