Planet reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(236 total reviews)
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Will Marshall

62% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Planet has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 236 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Planet 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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236 reviews
1.0
Sep 26, 2017

Stay away

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Domain (satellites / space) is definitely interesting. Just don't expect that you see too much of it.

Cons

* Company pretends to do good for the planet, however the biggest customers are defense related organisations like the military. Yet the company still aggressively touts some made-up humanitarian vision that couldn't be further away from the truth. * The amount of bureaucracy, politics and buzzword bingo is irritating at best, suffocating at worst. The company is far away from being an agile start-up. * Decisions coming from C-level are erratic, not thought through at all and most of the time so bad that they aggravate existing problems. * Moral compass is broken. People are getting fired left and right with no warning or proper reasons. American style a la "clean out your desk in 30 minutes" with a security guard watching. People are treated like pawns on a checker board. Everybody is just a replaceable cogwheel that might get fired on a whim. * The only thing that matters is cash, cash, cash. Because of that there is no company culture, no product culture and no believable vision

2.0
Sep 24, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Working with satellite data and some of the brightest engineers and colleagues in the field. Great team solidarity in the Berlin office. If you step up, you can take additional responsibility.

Cons

Upper management seems to be careless about cultural differences between offices and hands down crucial decisions with long-lasting negative impacts without prior consultations, even as the company policy is stating otherwise. Taking on additional responsibilities is not acknowledged in compensation reviews.

2.0
Sep 22, 2017

Don't believe to the humanitarian trick!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You work in the Satellite industry and this makes it very special. The work is very interesting and you can learn a lot about this specific sector. Coworkers are awesome, helpful and friendly.

Cons

The management is totally unclear and cannot be trusted. They claim to have founded a company focused on humanitarian goals but they only go after revenues. They do not hesitate to lay off good people without taking into account skills and experience. Most of their choices have no apparent foundation and seem to be taken without thinking them through. It's very hard to trust the management since decisions change every second day. If you look for stability and for a clear pattern, this is not your place.

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