Aquabyte Reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(15 total reviews)

Bryton Shang

61% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Aquabyte has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 15 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Aquabyte 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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15 reviews
2.0
18 May 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* great team (friendly people, good skillset) * great company mission * great product

Cons

* under the market compensation * bad culture (in a year, I have seen 7 people getting fired by the CEO) * management underestimating technical challenges

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Aquabyte Response
5y
Thank you for the feedback, both positive and negative. We agree - great mission, team and product! A top reason why folks come and join us is for the mission to make fish farming and food production more sustainable. Regarding our startup growing pains: we have made a number of improvements this past year: instituting a Culture Council, more thoughtful interviewing, objective compensation bands (and adjusting early employees), and hiring a Head of Product. We haven't always gotten it right, but I am committed to improving. We make a process of soliciting feedback regularly, and while we know we have work to do, we were heartened by the feedback employees shared recently in our engagement survey with a significant improvement in our employee NPS. But I know there is more to do and personally am excited to work with the great team we have to continue to improve as a professional company. Happy to continue the discussion offline and hear additional improvement suggestions - thanks again for the feedback.
2.0
16 Feb 2022

Great space, bad culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The product is making a global impact Interesting technical problems Smart team

Cons

Many team members have quit because of the culture.

1.0
16 Aug 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- The company is working in a sorely needed and important space - The product itself is well designed, although unnecessarily custom - There are some talented people in leadership with a proven history, however this is the exception, not the rule

Cons

- SOME talented people in leadership, but there are some questionable skills gaps relating to infrastructure, and even software design that will have you scratching your head why. - The CEO is more worried about flying to Norway and speaking to congress about aquaculture in general than communicating with the employees and potential hires. Seems to have 0 vision where this product could potentially be taken, and as stated is more drawn to the allure of being highly visible than actually running the company. - On the same note, the CEO says he's available to speak openly, but if you try to contact him you will be ignored, even for something as important as your pay - Job description was posted as remote, but requirements to be in office 2-3 days a week is dropped on you right before an offer is extended - Technical leadership has some extremely questionable gaps in knowledge, especially relating to infrastructure and networking - They claim to hit 60 percentile pay rates, but I'm not sure what data they are using. The initial offer I received was on the LOW end of 50 percentile range, and for a low COL area. After letting me know moving to San Francisco was a requirement, the percentile was well below fair market rates for the role, - The low pay is compounded by no 401k match, average-at-best medical, and the perks basically come down to free lunch at the office on certain days. - Verbal offer and written offer differed significantly. You will have to read your offer line-by-line, or better, have a lawyer review it, because they will, and did, make completely contrary promises in the verbal offer that were totally different when the written one came through. - Lack of communication on important topics. Simple questions over email get ignored for days, and then will only discuss important topics near the close of business on Friday, which is meant to pressure you into just accepting things as they are instead of getting your issues resolved.

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