Dstillery Reviews

4.2

83% would recommend to a friend

(76 total reviews)

Michael Beebe

91% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Dstillery has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 76 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Dstillery employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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76 reviews
1.0
13 Mar 2019

Going down

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. The last few heads that are around 2. Few good initiatives in Datascience / MLE team 3. work-life balance

Cons

1. Employee morale took a downturn in the past 2 years and the new CEO and leadership did not take the right measures to help. 2. Current CEO was the CFO before (with no priori experience as CEO) and there is one thing he knows to do - Cut Costs. Recent layoff, not investing in technology and people, no replacement hires for developers that leave, no farewell send aways for departing employees, etc. are a result of this mentality. 3. Weak leadership begets more weak leaders. A few recent promotions, just to keep employees from quitting, resulting in more leaders who don't really know what they are supposed to do. Main reason why someone is quitting every other week. 4. Compensation used to be a selling point here - not anymore. 5. Trying hard to keep the lights on and sell the company -> I would be surprised if the company is still around at the end of 2020. (Makes me sad actually when I think about what the company once was) 6. Focus is more on rebranding the company to whats hot in the market - than introspecting and harnessing our true strengths to deliver value for clients/customers.

2.0
28 Dec 2016

Immense shortcomings

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good place to work at if you're just starting out. The technology actually works. Opportunities for cross-collaboration.

Cons

Lack of clear vision and strategy, with reorg after reorg as a result. Layoffs without substantial justification. People with great performance track-record disappear and no one talks about it. The leadership is too concentrated and credit only goes to the ones with a science-based background. No room to grow, even though they will tell you that there is. Unfortunately, the culture has turned very toxic with more than half the company wanting out.

3.0
13 Aug 2015

Unfortunate Shift in Company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Quality product. Some great folks are still with the company.

Cons

There has been a significant change in environment as the company prepares to go public or be sold. Short sighted decisions and approach to the business are undermining the quality of the product. Long term employees have been leaving the company.

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