AtScale Reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(70 total reviews)

Chris Lynch

87% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

AtScale has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 70 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The AtScale 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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70 reviews
1.0
7 Feb 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice people. Great office. Friendly colleagues. Great product. Lots to learn. Nice open culture. Office with some nice views of the city.

Cons

My manager single handed inspired me to leave. Very difficult person to work for. Even though it was a great company and product think twice before joining Support. You may be working for a really micro managing manager. Likes to be informed with absolutely everything. Total control freak. Has an opinion on everything the way it’s handled. Loves to talk about people on there backs. Loves to ridicule colleagues in front of other peers.

5.0
11 Jan 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I work in engineering, so I can't speak for the rest of the organization, but Engineering is great. Here's why: The Management: Our manager (Matt) is excellent, and very hands-off. His role has more to do with support and representation to the rest of the C-level team than anything else. He fights for us to be able to do large-scale refactors on the codebase, which has been incredible in a job satisfaction sense. This has a lot to do with him having trust in us to get our work done, which we repay by actually getting our work done. It's a great relationship. The Culture: The AtScale culture is best described with a Starship Troopers quote: "Everyone fights, no one quits." Which is to say, as long as you're working and completing what needs to be done, no one is going to get on your case for anything trivial. The team here is extremely veteran, and as such, there is so much trust between everyone here. No one is afraid to ask for help from anyone else. PMs have a great relationship with Engineering because they were hired specifically because they understand engineering inside and out. Quality > Everything. As for extracurriculars, we play board games almost every single lunch break. Love Letter and 7 Wonders are the current favorites, but there is an array of other things people like to play. Not just engineering either! Pretty much everyone at AtScale is very chill and easy to laugh, which makes for an extremely pleasant environment that I honestly kind of miss on longer vacations. The Work: At least in my job, the problems we solve are hard but also very engaging and interesting. Sometimes you gotta pull out the ol' hard work shovel and do some dirty-work to get something done that isn't so fun, but that is definitely the exception rather than the rule. We are encouraged to innovate and experiment with new technologies but with a very healthy "Where's the beef" veteran mindset to make sure we're extracting real value from them, as opposed to just chasing the flavor of the month.

Cons

AtScale is located in San Mateo, which doesn't have great BART access, and even worse access from the East Bay. Caltrain is an option from the city however. As an East Bay resident though, the commute can be pretty brutal (45m-1hr in the morning, 1hr-1hr15m in the evening).

1.0
5 Mar 2024

Broken Company, Broken Product

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote-first work, the tech is cool when it works. Hours are flex, which is nice.

Cons

Pay is weak. "but the stock options!" is a weak counter argument. This company most likely will not be around much longer. Benefits are weak. Career advancement is unclear. Pay raises do not exist. CEO is absent. Most communication from him are via email with a single emoji (his favorite is "fist bump"). CEO is delusional about the product, as is most senior leadership. The quarterly townhalls with the CEO are surreal. His rants come out of nowhere and go nowhere. Engineering is in Europe (Bulgaria) and completely disconnected from how customers use the product. Engineering seems to be building what they want with little direct supervision from Product. Speaking of which, current head of product is out of her depth. The current push to containers is a dumpster fire. So many things wrong. So many things broken. Customers want scalability but engineering really isn't interested in building that, probably because it's hard. Customer Success is -- this week -- in the sales area. They have shuffled around customer success multiple times in the past few years. Fired most of the customer success people last year. It's hard to keep track. People get fired silently. They just disappear. Communication is fractured and siloed. Microsoft is slowly boxing out competitors in this space and AtScale is very slow or very unrealistic to adopt.

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