Porch Group reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(441 total reviews)

Matt Ehrlichman

77% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Porch Group has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 441 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Porch Group 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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441 reviews
1.0
Dec 20, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Location in Eastlake is convienient. My co workers work extremely hard. Many put in over 50 hours a week. Friday all team lunches

Cons

They cramp us in like sardines. I wish they would have told me this when I was hired. It is so cramped in the call center that many reps have to cover their headsets with a notebook. The tables are only a few feet long with no dividers, reps across and on both sides. It is embarassing and extremely tough to sell in this environment. Pay is low compared to other tech sales. Benefits are sub par. Noft a well balanced work/life environment. You will be expected to put in 50 hours and micromanagement is rampant. Seems like they hire young graduates to take advantage of because they do not know any better.

1.0
Jul 10, 2014

It's all about perception

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cool office in Seattle. Swings. Food. View.

Cons

What the hell are all of these reviews? Please. Refrain from drinking the kool-aid, folks. I'm not one to disapprove team chants and ear-to-ear smiles, but none of it here seemed genuine to me. You walk into the office and you're greeted by sales, sales and more sales. What's going on here?

1.0
Jul 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good work life balance. You can come late and leave early and no one will care. - Easy to work on whatever tech you feel like. There is nothing stopping you from advocating new technology since people can choose what they like. - Free cereal - They survey the employees weekly to get a pulse on the company.

Cons

- Probably won't have a job in a year or so. - Management has no idea how to run a tech company. They were asking, "How do I make engineers work harder?" while having no product vision. - Burning cash like crazy.

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Porch Group Response
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Thanks for sharing the feedback. I'm sorry you had such a bad experience, especially considering you invested more than 3 years into it. Given how negative your opinion is, I'm surprised you stayed this long. For work-life balance, we understand people need flexibility in their schedules and we allow for it when possible. I'm not on the technology side, but there are benefits to using established, stable technologies versus new, untested ones and vice versa. Giving engineers the freedom to make these decisions is important. On the cons, it seems like we did a poor job communicating our cash position even though we tell our employees exactly how much cash we have in the bank every month - one of our values is transparency and I think we've done a great job when it comes to sharing financials. We're a private company so I won't go into detail, but our goal is still to be profitable by the end of the year and we're on pace to get there. It'll be our choice to increase burn if we want to invest in certain areas of the business. We've been focused on major improvements to the product and plan to roll these out over the next few months. We've already announced to our professionals a product update happening in August that is focused on driving them the value they're paying for and will directly impact the satisfaction of homeowners. Future updates are intended to give professionals even more control over how they interact with homeowners on Porch. Not sure why the mission hasn't come through clearer but this is something we continue to cover in our company all hands and through the quarterly goals we set - "every project done, every homeowner satisfied." Thanks, Ronnie
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