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3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

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Ania Smith

39% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

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5.0
Oct 1, 2018

TaskRabbit is a company with which you can grow

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Regularly see our Exec team make hard decisions within the framework of our core values. - Our Exec team gives huge amount of transparency; have never had this personally at previous companies. - Strong, neighborly culture. You're coming to work with people who care deeply about doing right by the communities we serve. - Managers care. Let's be clear, managers are humans and no one is perfect, but there's a firm cultural belief in responding thoughtfully to critical feedback. That includes managers responding to feedback from direct reports. There are often skip-level meetings to check that this is going well. - Huge opportunity to be in the driver's seat of your own career. Stressing that you have to be willing to put in the work, seek feedback, and be the driver. That said, I've been here three+ years and have massively changed the scope of my role by looking for emerging business needs and working hard to be the best candidate to take on the new challenges. - Excellent health care package - Great compensation. Again, managers aren't mind readers and you do need to communicate your needs, but I've seen and experienced consistent, sustained hard work being rewarded very fairly. - Lots of cross functional mentorship. If you ask for advice or for someone in another department or someone above you to give feedback or teach you something, I've only ever encountered willingness to teach and share. - The learning series! We had Arianna Huffington come in and give a talk. My personal favorite was a talk by Angela Duckworth, author of Grit: The power of passion and perseverance.

Cons

- This IS a demanding place to work. If you're looking for something easy where you can coast, this might not be the best place for you. If you're looking for a challenge and are willing to put in the work (you have grit, if you will), then I strongly encourage you to apply for one of our open positions!

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TaskRabbit Response
7y
Thank you for the awesome feedback! I agree that this is definitely a place you can be "in the driver's seat", as you said. Thank you for leveling up as an individual and taking the initiative to learn and grow. I'm glad it's paying off for you...and for all of us. Best Wishes, Laura
2.0
Jun 10, 2018
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Pros

Great office space with lots of perks. Office / culture events are top notch. Great CEO with an inspirational story to tell. Bright engineering and data teams. Diverse team. Some good recent exec hires, including VP Ops, are promising for real change.

Cons

Middle management is highly inept. Lots of false starts, bureaucracy and politics for such a small size company. No direction. IKEA acquisition is still being figured out in terms of fit into strategy so causing a lot of spinning wheels to show movement. Too many tentative hires without a clear team charter. Lots of juvenile behavior on the part of middle management, little management training, lots of middle school level bickering to get work done instead of being data driven, silos already apparent within teams where "XYZ is not my problem unless it's in my OKRs". No real HR or support, C level execs are mostly encouraging and inspiring leaders but are spread far too thin to help run the business operationally; although rapid hiring is meant to improve the situation. Company struggling to adjust to its new pace, not enough muscle to understand high-growth mode whatsoever due to lots of both junior level hires w/ no real world experience AND a long standing exec team that has not experienced navigating growth for sometime. On the floor, it is a punitive environment with no room for error or disagreement on some teams. Disagreement w/ exec will get you in hot water with management, so go with the flow and do as you are told, or else. Lots of hypocrisy and not practicing what middle management preaches, phony baloney proclamations around "Middle Path listening to understand" that in practice are completely misused, management not following through and 1-way communication.

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TaskRabbit Response
8y
Thank you for taking the time to write a very thorough review. I'm very sorry that you had a bad experience at TaskRabbit. I want you to know that I've read this review, and will be discussing with the rest of our executive team. If you would like to email or talk to me confidentially, please feel free to reach out - lauram@taskrabbit. com. I would like to understand more with the focus on improving. As you mention, our goal is to take feedback in order to learn, improve and ensure the happiness of our employees. Thank you.
5.0
Jun 6, 2018

Great people and lots of opportunity

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- A fun, inclusive startup culture with the financial security of a mature company after the recent acquisition - Opportunity for owning projects and standing out - Coworkers who actually care about their jobs and work hard - A strong emphasis on transparency and candor - Training on bias, communication, and leadership - Regular events like our Speaker Series, company outings, and internal events that let everyone unwind

Cons

- An incredible lack of process and difficulty discussing and establishing them. This will likely improve over time as the company grows and navigates its new future.

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