Up to date with newest technologies, friendly people, and overall great culture
Cons
Only one ping pong table :(
ecobee Response
5y
Hello! It is great to hear that you enjoyed your time at ecobee.
Our team is dedicated to continually improving and creating a great place to work for all of our employees, so we thank you for your feedback!
- market rate pay for design / dev
- well-stocked fridges / coffee
- diverse tech stack
- interns seemed to enjoy working here, and the intern to full-time pipeline is strong.
- large personal education budget (I recommend using it to go to a conference somewhere fun, and if the conference sucks just go have fun on their plane ticket dime)
- development teams are decently structured, and teams are pretty free to do their own thing re: tech selection, implementation. This also means that the work environment on one team may be totally different from another, so that's good and bad.
- the office location has pros and cons, but one major pro is you can take nice walks by the lake
- like any larger company you'll probably find people that you vibe with, I made lots of friends here.
Cons
- Delusional CEO. Not sure if he thought he was talking a big game to hype up the workers, or if he believes what he says. Either way it's pretty irritating to listen to him talk himself up 24/7 and act like the company is revolutionary when in reality it's just a toy company for bored home-owning boomers.
- CEO talks a big game about caring about the environment, but when workers raised ideas about how we could be proactive it's pretty clear that it's all talk .
- Unrealistic product timelines, then when it becomes apparent the product timeline is horrible the CEO just doubles down.
- support workers are treated very poorly. It's hard to respect a company when they treat people this way. The support workers need a lot of knowledge and patience to do their job and should be better compensated and given more accommodations and praise. The company couldn't function without them.
- New office is in a poor location. Not much to eat and the busses around there are brutal during commute times.
ecobee Response
5y
Hello! Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re glad to hear that you enjoyed our office space, your coworkers and had an opportunity to use our continuous education program, Let’s Be Great! Great ideas come from anywhere, and to have great ideas, we need to surround ourselves with innovation and learning which is what we’re all about here at ecobee. We welcome you to view our LinkedIn page to see all the different ways we continue to keep learning at our forefront!
However, we’re sorry to hear that your overall experience at ecobee and our efforts did not meet your expectations. We hope you felt empowered to share your thoughts during your time with us as we always welcome feedback and ways in which we can improve.
If you have any further questions or thoughts you’d like to share, please feel free to reach out to people.operations@ecobee.com and we would be happy to discuss with you at any time!
- Great culture
- Fantastic CEO
- Leadership and middle-management are really experienced and communicate very well
- Product is great and the company has a great mission for their products
Cons
The company doesn't use the style of programming (functional programming) that I would prefer. However, this is more a matter of preference than something inherently negative. Additionally my squad let me build an internal tool using this paradigm, but for the most part the tech stack is very vanilla (idiomatic React, Redux, Node.js)
ecobee Response
6y
Hello! Thank you for taking the time to post your feedback. It is great to hear that you are enjoying your time at ecobee! Our team is dedicated to continually improving and creating a great place to work for all of our employees, so we thank you for your feedback that will allow us to continue to do that.