Remote reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(611 total reviews)
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65% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Remote has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 611 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Remote 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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611 reviews
1.0
Feb 13, 2023

Don't touch even with a long stick

Anonymous employee
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Pros

the ground level people were living up to the culture

Cons

Middle management and leadership! People who should not be leading people! People who do not care about your health! Silently minimum wage disappeared from public notion page. Company raised too much money and lost its soul and mission.

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Remote Response
3y
Thank you for the review, we are glad that you were able to find meaningful connections and appreciated the values that people were living up to. We are thankful for your contributions to Remote too, as well as any advice and feedback you have given. We understand that Remote’s async environment requires extra effort to make sure everyone is up to date about important changes, so that’s an area we will continue to focus on, as part of our value of transparency. We continue to stay true to our values of kindness, transparency, ownership, excellence and ambition while we are also focused on the future, and this requires changes in policies - just like any organization. Thank you for being part of Remote.
2.0
Jul 7, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

* Great values and mission statement from early on * Culture of documentation that actually works and provides great value for new joiners and old time Remoters * No bullshit PTO policies and micro management * The async work structure is chaotic but manageable in the long run (even better if teams are better distributed across timezones instead of being EU centric)

Cons

On engineering, the career growth is very unclear: There's a lot of space for you want to jump on the management track, but for technical growth the organization doesn't know what to do: employees get the feedback that need to navigate that on their own with other ICs instead of having a Manager working along with you on your career. Employees are completely responsible for creating an environment for career growth inside the company's expansion and unconnected teams. Unlimited PTO is used as a panacea that would solve as issues, but taking one week off from work won't solve any structural issues because managers won't act on it magically. Sometimes the hiring pipeline is used in the same way - having more employees would help on a few workload issues but it doesn't fix things magically. Surveys and feedback forms showed very little effect on real changes over 2022, with a lot of verticals reporting the exact same issues - plans and goals were mentioned to be in the works, but there's minimal visibility on this for the rest of the company. Local employment laws expertise is uneven across the company: In a few countries, employees need to explain (more than once) how things work on their country, instead of People/Payroll teams being experts on the subject (which would be expected for a company that is supposed to deal with this). On a couple of situations, action was taken only after external employees/customers raised those issues, even though internal employees had more than enough feedback about health insurance providers and other local benefits.

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Remote Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. It’s good to hear you appreciated our values, mission, and culture of documentation. Those are all really important here at Remote. We hear your points about career growth, communication, and knowledge-sharing — and agree those are areas where we can do better. We always take feedback seriously, including this, so we appreciate it.
5.0
Feb 19, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

There's really a *LOT* that can be written here, but here's a couple that are standouts: - The people: the folks working here are incredibly talented and very kind and nice as well; I've had the displeasure of working in toxic work environments in the past and the difference is jaw dropping. You will genuinely like working here simply because of the healthy space that awaits you - Values: Like a lot of companies, Remote has a public handbook (handbook.remote.com), but unlike a lot of companies we actually adhere to it — unsurprising because being a completely remote and async workplace, its the only source of truth for a lot of things; the best part is that the first value that is expected of everyone is Kindness — towards other people in the workplace, our customers and the product itself - Treated (and paid) fairly: it doesn't matter where you're working (remotely) from, you're paid incredibly fairly and treated as such as well. The leadership is well experienced with remote work and knows what they're doing — this isn't a startup simply burning through VC money :P - Truly diverse: employees are literally from all corners of the world (and more on the way!) and there are conscious efforts always ongoing to be at the top of the game - Your time and space is respected: whether you're a night owl or an early riser, its really up to you when and how you'd like to get things done, you're trusted to do what needs to be done. Also, everyone knows you're only human, so its expected of you to take the day off if you're simply not feeling it :)

Cons

absolutely none, which is also surprising because it is difficult to keep up the good stuff when a company is growing at such a rate — credit to the leadership for leading by example in all aspects and ensuring that things didn't go off the rails

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Remote Response
5y
Thank you for the wonderful feedback and review! If anything ever does come to mind that we can work on improving, please email the people team or pop them a message on slack.
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