Rocket Lawyer reviews

3.8

65% would recommend to a friend

(268 total reviews)

Paul Hollerbach

73% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Rocket Lawyer has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 268 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rocket Lawyer 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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268 reviews
1.0
Dec 23, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Some smart people that are not enabled to perform at their best - Good work - life balance

Cons

This is one of those companies that will make you dread going into work on a daily basis. Talk about a depressing place to work. If you’re going into interview for a job at Rocket Lawyer, be sure to take note of the negative energy that exists in the office and among the employees to determine if that’s an environment that you spend any amount of time in. Also, please use your best judgement when reading any positive reviews as those were planted by senior management to improve the ratings of the company on Glassdoor and to try to get new hires in the door. What other employees have mentioned about the founder are true. He is an egomaniacal sociopath that is unable to hand over the reigns to the employees to let them do their jobs. Rocket Lawyer employees essentially take orders from the founder and any attempt to make decisions are met with pushback and resistance. The founder will dictate what something should look like (design), what it should say (copy), and what the customer experience should be (UX). If you have a differing opinion or perspective than him, he will tell you to get on his page because your opinion is incorrect. The reality is, he is an attorney and not an entrepreneur. If, and when this company fails, the founder will only have himself to blame. The company also has a case of “shiny bright object syndrome” - constantly shifting priorities and leaving projects that have been worked on for months on the shelf - wasting valuable time and resources. - Highly political. - Lack of good leadership across the organization. - They cannot stick with a single product development process and it changes almost every quarter. - No career development or opportunities for advancement - it's a dead-end job. - Unethical customer acquisition and billing strategies. - Extremely negative work environment. - Way too many meetings and not enough time to do actual work.

1.0
Dec 5, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Great people, so long as they are not in charge of anything. - Great hours, you don't really have to work.

Cons

- Terrible CEO / Founder. Aka "The Monster". This came up in interviews when I was leaving, no one thinks highly of this guy. - Leadership was promoted based on being lawyers or loyal to the monster. Too many lawyers, too few doers. - Features added to the site are done not based off of any real data, but rather what the monster wants. - So much process... so many meetings...

2.0
Sep 19, 2014

Thoroughly average

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Hardly any work. At least, in my team. If you liked being paid more than you deserve (or don't care about it at all), then great. Otherwise, you'll be discontent with the money-work gap. People are by and large nice. There are some very smart people and I kept wondering what they were ever doing here. Close to BART and a ton of eating places. Great location near Embarcadero. Loved the feeling of working in SF.

Cons

Hopeless PTO policy. Politics like it was an <insert troubled nation's name> government. Not much work. Lot of smart people began leaving to go to bigger/better companies. The people who are here, come across as being content with what they have when it is clearly visible that they're nowhere near their full potential. It does not, therefore, inspire much confidence.

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