Underpaying and over-asking. AI cult. - Trust and Safety Specialist Thumbtack Employee Review

2.0
9 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote work, company shut down for the holidays.

Cons

Gross misalignment between pay rate and expectations. What they call Trust and Safety is basically being the referee between two emotional parties and chasing down people for basic documentation. If you want to use your investigative background to arbitrate on a paint color or the grass cut too short, all for under 60K a year you will be in the right place. Feels like a school playground, but you are QA’d for it. Let’s talk about QA. Managers do it. Yup, not biased at all. But hey, if you work really really hard and exceed expectations, you can count on a 3% raise below inflation rate, because the company wants to remain competitive. With who? Poverty? Now open wide, here’s a big scoop of AI !!! AI AI AI AI all day. Like a cult. Mind you, these AI tools are not helpful at all in your daily work, and the company did not foresee that users would also use AI to beat us at our own game. As an investigator, I am now basically an AI moderator and a playground referee. They want us to let AI monitor our work and launched AI tools that basically do our work, calling them Agents too. Leadership has not reassured worried employees on that topic once. Finally, I have never been so tracked in my work. You have to change status all the time on the platform, give access to screen recording, AI case observer etc. It’s a stressful subpar position acting like they pay you 6 figures.

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5.0
1 Apr 2026
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Pros

Work life balance, teamwork and collaboration, encourages creativity. Everyone shares same mission: support small businesses and get pros more jobs

Cons

More alignment across teams and updates regarding product, brand strategy, clearer OKRs. I literally have to dig deep for any cons I seriously love this job and culture.

5.0
23 Dec 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Thumbtack is a really great company with a very strong culture and an obsessive focus on improving itself. Everyone from the engineers to the recruiters to the operations teams are approachable, curious, humble, dedicated to learning, and fun to talk with. The product makes a difference in people's lives and the opportunity is huge, which makes the environment exciting and the work satisfying. Decisions from hires to product changes to ad buys are made in a very thoughtful, rigorous manner, but bad decisions are owned up to and abandoned quickly. Very little ego or politics within the company, as everyone seems committed to making the best decisions to help the team, and working hard to make that decision making process as analytically rigorous and free from bias as possible. As a start up there are many opportunities for team members to contribute and expand their horizons and leadership offers support for people to figure out and implement new things. I love coming to work here.

Cons

The relentlessly thoughtful decision making process means that the company can move more slowly than it perhaps should at times. Engineer hiring has proven to be a major bottleneck due to absurdly high standards for new hires. As a result, teams that could get by with less than world-class engineers are left without any engineering resources at all. Also as a result the product has simple, glaring flaws that go left unaddressed, and there are clearly areas of the company set up years ago that have been given no thought in a while as attention is focused elsewhere. Huge opportunity for new hires to fix these things and help this company realize its potential.

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