Esper Reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(91 total reviews)
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Yadhu Gopalan

67% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Esper has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 91 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Esper 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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91 reviews
1.0
27 May 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. The work is exciting however not so great once you realize how things are done here.

Cons

1. Double standards of management especially your reporting manager. 2. Unreal devotion to customers. There are awards for it now. 3. Not sure where the development practices are headed. All dependencies are broken in someway or are outdated. 4. Good engineers are leaving, senior engineers are very less and hence cannot learn anything new here unless you want to work like a college graduate for the rest of your life. 5. Toxic colleagues, people talk-back, gossip. 6. Consistent release cycles which are never release ready -- making work/life balance hard. 7. Dull-witted HR/People's department, if you need to things slowly then you will feel welcomed in this company.

2.0
6 Nov 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

very good and smart team (on Bangalore side), good co-ordination with US office, every one is very hard working (i believe, but had some bad rappo with few people here, don't know how they got hired)

Cons

- partiality with US office, US office treated very nicely - Fast hiring process in US office, India office very slow - bad management from HR (even when not hiring, they are slow to respond, idk what they do during work that is so important) - US office gets medical benefits (90% of the original cost), while india office has only 5L rupees as insurance protection - US office gets ergonomic standing desk with 36 inch wide monitor screen - US office gets minimum 14 days mandatory off with unlimited leaves - equity for US employees none of the above perks for India office where most heavy work happens...

2.0
3 June 2023

Flailing and failing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Really good in-office amenities, good equipment budgets, and excellent pay.

Cons

Everything else. Esper is a company that has very little to no idea who it wants to be. There is no respect from any of the rank and file for the C suite, and it's plain to see why. Executive leadership squabble and conspire like boys out at a "No Wives!!!" poker night. Everything is done under cloak of secrecy, and strategic changes are dropped on you during an all-hands like an atomic bomb. Executive leaders continually fail to establish realistic pathways to business goals but expect operational leaders to do it for them. None of the leaders in this organization remotely understand the target customer for the product, and it's painful to watch legacy tech leaders come in and act like they do. Most recent senior hires are woefully out of step with startup culture and have little relevant experience in the MDM industry. If you're looking at a sales role: Esper's product is extremely difficult to sell. Deals take upward of a year to close, churn is growing, and technical account managers are being worked to the bone to address huge customer pain points that only seem to multiply. There's going to be a tipping point, and they're going to lose a big customer because of it. When that happens, Esper could very well enter a death spiral. Esper also has no consistent long term business vision. The company has no idea if it wants to be acquired or to move toward independent profitability. The product itself has failed to evolve and iterate major features, and "table stakes" enterprise customer features like RBAC (Role Based Account Control) have taken embarrassingly long to develop.

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Esper Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. The Executive Leadership Team and I wish you the best in your career. -yadhu
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