CrossFit Reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(90 total reviews)

57% positive business outlook

CrossFit has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 90 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.

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90 reviews
2.0
18 Feb 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits: 100% free medical and dental (no vision) PPO, HSA / FSA options. instant-vest 401K, with 100% match up to 5% of annual pay. $1000 gift card for your Birthday, and $500 gift card for Christmas (Both are income, and you will pay taxes on them) Free stuff / discounts: 40% Discount to Reebok. Free seminar attendance. (usually) 1 free pair of shoes at the games, plus a small gift bag from Reebok, usually some shirts and shorts. Free protein, gum, and good coffee in the Scotts Valley office. Work Life Balance: Great people to work around - Everyone loves CrossFit. Working too hard is seen as a negative, so a pretty liberal work-life balance. Fully stocked gym on site in Scotts Valley.

Cons

Its owned by ONE man, and ONE man only. -Greg Glassman owns the company. There is no board, no empowered COO. Employees chase lots of shiny objects for no reason. -You will never get any kind of bonus, or equity. -Career advancement is non-existent unless you are a CrossFit OG - or a personal friend / spouse of senior management. Business Stuff: -HR in general is pretty ineffective, and usually focus more on trying not to get the Company sued, and less on taking care of the employees. -It is a very Male-Driven culture. 'Male-Anatomy' drawn all over the walls, a general disrespect of women is rampant. 'Fraternization' between very senior members of the company and their staff is common. Management: -Senior employees in the company are generally poor managers, and have very little skill at managing employees. -Middle managers aren't given any training, and generally lack any skill at personnel, fiscal, and time management. -Management in general is perfectly happy to hire someone based on their love of CrossFit and burn them out while they discover how dysfunctional the company is. -For SKILLED employees, (People with a degree, previous experience in a field, etc) pay is substandard and wages are uncompetitive. -Employees without normally marketable skills (interns, helpdesk, 'generic workers') they are paid better than competitive for entry level work, making it hard to leave. -For all employees, training and career progression are completely ignored. -A 'weed and feed' mentality on employee turnover. Rounds of layoffs every 18-24 months like clockwork as the company overspends without corresponding growth.

2.0
16 Mar 2016

No progress

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

What the company stands for is great and something anyone would want to get behind, who wouldn't want to create a healthier future. There are some great opportunities to travel.

Cons

The IT side moves at a sails pace, everything takes years longer than it should (this is no exaggeration). Management is a joke. Getting a raise is a joke. There is no opportunity to grow, you will sit in your same position or move laterally, while "favorites" will get positions they are not even qualified to do. They constantly hire under qualified wives/girlfriends husbands/boyfriends of employees.

2.0
11 Feb 2019

Abysmally run.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Contributing to people's wellness is BY FAR the greatest perk working at CrossFit HQ. There are still a few great people here, despite the mass layoffs. The gym is as incredible as you'd imagine. If you wanted to, you can work out twice a day and clock in about 5 hours of real work (surprise - many people want to). Good health benefits.

Cons

If it weren't for the fact that people are haphazardly let go in droves, it would almost be comical just how unsophisticated, merciless, non-communicative and generally lost the leadership is. - There are no best practices adhered to, anywhere. - IT is a disaster and products/systems are always insanely delayed and subpar once launched - Generally, there's a man-child complex that runs throughout the company; talking about real challenges makes people uncomfortable or downright angry and therefore nothing is ever fixed. If you are smart and have good ideas, you will be largely ignored or jettisoned for fear that you might rock the (sinking) boat. - The nepotism is wide and destructive. - Many on the exec team hate one another and don't interact unless forced to in a social setting. - The owner (Greg Glassman) is detached from reality and doesn't express care for a single employee beyond the small cadre of yes-men he's retained. - The CEO is universally disliked and doesn't know the names of a single employee outside the "friends of Greg" circle. - Qualified employees are underpaid. Unqualified people with connections to the founder are paid handsomely to do very little. - Mature professionals - especially women - don't last long at CrossFit. I've literally seen senior level women with business pedigrees relegated to glorified scheduling admins. - The owner/founder is surrounded by sycophants who reinforce all of his bad ideas and do everything they can to limit his circle of influence. - The mission has gone from a health focus that would open the CrossFit tent to newcomers to a fringe health science message that is off-putting and lazily executed.

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