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
2.0
Sep 2, 2017

Negative direction

Recommend
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Pros

We do some amazing stuff, working with great data and doing things nobody else does, launching dozens of satellites into space on a nearly continuous basis. We get a lot of freedom in how to do our jobs.

Cons

Especially in Berlin, the pay is not competitive and the office environment does not come up to the level of most startups in Berlin. Some upper-management seem to forget we exist and make decisions that totally change everything without having us in the loop. The biggest current issue is that re-orgs and re-focusing are putting profits above everything else, where good people are fired or shoved around. Also, the teams doing a lot of the hard work in the company are treated like caged chickens, getting the smallest amount of workspace that is legally allowed, while others enjoy their private offices.

5.0
Aug 4, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Planet is filled with articulate, intelligent, ambitious and committed people. The goals for the company are broad and ambitious as the commercial space arena is still exploring it's strengths and weaknesses. There is great autonomy in your workday and great demands on desired outcomes.

Cons

Planet is at that moment when you realize you have grown up and have to act like it, more planning in this area is needed. People often narrow their own scope to keep up with work demands to the detriment of new employees and ownerless areas.

2.0
Jul 25, 2017

Company Has Problems

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free lunches 2x a week.

Cons

Went through a round of layoffs laying off system critical people just to hire new ones that were 1/3 as competent. The pipe dream of humanitarian-focused business is there to distract since they clearly don't care about it at all- doing maybe 1 good thing a quarter to boast to investors. Pay was particularly bad to have to work in SOMA to a point where I should have never worked there. Continuously hiring project managers rather than people to actually fix the problems they like to hound you about.

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