Relativity reviews

3.4

60% would recommend to a friend

(529 total reviews)
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Phil Saunders

75% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Relativity has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 529 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Relativity employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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529 reviews
1.0
Dec 18, 2013

It really is as bad as everybody says

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent option if you are a recent college grad and fit into one of the stereotypical archetypes - pretty 20-something yuppie HR girl from Lincoln Park, pretty 20-something hipster marketing girl from Wicker Park, 20-something gamer geek in development, 30-something overgrown hipster in sales, etc.

Cons

I think I will just pile on to what everybody else is saying about the place. It's all true. The creepy pseudo-religious values stuff, the cult-like following, the 80s-style groupthink, the wannabe Apple vibe that clearly fails when you compare Apple's glassdoor score. People aren't exaggerating. It really is that weird here. Either you find your calling here with people who look, think and act just like you, or you lose your mind and leave after a year. I will just add this. You know you're in the wrong place when your boss criticizes you for standing and using the bathroom stall instead of the urinal. It's apparently anti-social? The day that my bathroom preferences become my boss's business is the day it's time to update my resume!

2.0
Jan 10, 2024

Avoid if you can

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Pros

Health benefits were decent. The office is in a beautiful historic building. Management seemed to be doing their best to protect workers from unreasonable demands. Work life balance was pretty good and unlimited PTO was usually respected.

Cons

Horrible workflows, ancient codebase, high employee turnover, poor documentation and very little innovation. I highly discourage entry level devs from spending any long amount of time here. I learned almost nothing that could be applied to any other job. The work on my team essentially consisted of running around patching holes in a legacy codebase full of load bearing garbage, occasionally trying to make incremental improvements that end up revealing just how fragile and poorly conceived the underlying architecture is. This depends on the team, but for me on calls were miserable, got woken up multiple times through the night attempting to diagnose client problems, mind you as a junior dev less than a year out of college. Overall, a kafkaesque nightmare I'm glad to leave in the past.

1.0
May 31, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

When you assess leadership, we have one Black leader who sits on the board. The company also had a number of initiatives to support minority talent: mentoring, justice for change, and CRGs. These initiatives are all run by minority ICs and not leaders, yet [other] leaders take credit for the progress.

Cons

The company doesn't prioritize recruiting, retaining, and promoting black talent. Black talent makes up less than 10% of the organization, less than 3% of promotion, and 0% represented at the executive level. Read the incomplete diversity report. The new promotion cycle will further increase inequities as the only people who get promoted off-cycle tend to be white/regional leaders.

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