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    Fitbit Reviews

    Updated 14 August 2018
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    Fitbit CEO James Park
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    • "Product intros are typically brutal on work-life balance" (in 7 reviews)

    • "Its not certain our business model isn't a fad, so wall street has not been a fan of the stock, pay could be a little better, no 401k match" (in 6 reviews)

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    1. "Highest quality team I've ever worked with"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - National Account Manager in Sydney
      Current Employee - National Account Manager in Sydney
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      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Fitbit full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      A company at the cutting edge of technology, creating great products and encouraging people to lead healthier, happier and more active lives. The work culture is fantastic to be a part of and it's great to be surrounded by colleagues of the highest standard.

      Cons

      None so far, though if I had to pick something it would be the challenges of keeping up in such a fast growing business.

      Advice to Management

      Be proud of what you have created, stick to the business core values, keep up the hard work and future success will follow

    2. "Fitbit company pros and cons"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
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      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Fitbit full-time

      Pros

      Flexible, innovative and exciting, never boring.

      Cons

      Turbulent and constantly dealing with changing goals.

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    3. "Brilliant opportunity"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Melbourne
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Melbourne
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      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Fitbit (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Dynamic, focused, international team. Responsibility and autonomy. Your input into business improvement is valued and acted upon. Extremely fast pace.

      Cons

      Extremely fast pace, sometimes long hours.

      Advice to Management

      Keep going!

      Fitbit Response

      4 Dec 2015 – CPO

      Thank you for your review. It is much appreciated. Fitbit is very fast-paced and dynamic. We are constantly working to add new talent and try to ensure that long hours are not the standard... More

    4. "great place to work energised people"

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      Current Employee - Country Manager in Melbourne
      Current Employee - Country Manager in Melbourne
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      Positive Outlook

      I have been working at Fitbit full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      lots great to lace to work

      Cons

      none to speak of just growing pains

      Advice to Management

      keep going

    5. Helpful (1)

      "Excellent place to work"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Fitbit full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      The best aspect of working at Fitbit (at least for a Firmware engineer) is the people. They have a great team of smart and friendly people. In four years there I never encountered any problems of internal politics or anything else that is unpleasant.
      The company is very flexible as far as working from home whenever you need. They vacation policy is FTA, and the benefits package is excellent. Work/Life balance is also excellent - the company is really encouraging it.

      Cons

      During the four years I worked at Fitbit it was growing at a very fast rate (the number of firmware engineer increased about x10). This caused sometimes communication failures - not hearing about things that you should know - but it was not too bad.

    6. Helpful (2)

      "QA firmware"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Fitbit full-time

      Pros

      Great work life balance, great perks

      Cons

      office location in San Diego

      Advice to Management

      Invest and expand your RnD

    7. Helpful (3)

      "A great opportunity to learn, grow and make an positive impact"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in San Francisco, CA (US)
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in San Francisco, CA (US)
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Fitbit full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      - Work/life balance (seriously, the best I've ever had)
      - Opportunity to work autonomously, but also collaborate as a team with many brilliant people
      - Work for a company making a difference in the lives of so many people
      - Many greenfield opportunities. Still so much that needs to be done to grow this company and create a lasting legacy.
      - An incredibly supportive leadership team
      - Truly lives it's mission and encourages its employees to do stay healthy and fit
      - very casual work environment (e.g. lots of people who come to work in their workout gear on the regular, but Wednesday is officially workout Wednesday)

      If you love working on challenging projects, are open to change and thrive in an environment where you will always being solving complex problems in new and innovative ways, this is the place for you. If you are willing to work for it, you could very easily do the best work of your career here at Fitbit. This is not a rest and vest company, though there are quite a few of them still around.

      Cons

      - The company has had a pretty tough time setting a direction/strategy and then quickly executing against it. They were back on their heels for a bit, but are now starting to gain forward momentum again. If we can stay on track with current strategy, I am confident we will be even more successful than before.
      - There is no 401K match, but rumors are that it is in the works.
      - There is also not the gym that you would expect from a company like Fitbit, though they do give you $70/mo as a wellness stipend and there is a small shared gym in one of the buildings.

      Advice to Management

      Don't be afraid to share more. People just want to know what is going on--good, bad or otherwise. I know that there is a lot going on that we're afraid to talk about for some reason, but if everyone knew about all of the great work happening and we also talked more about challenges, it would go a long way in improving employee engagement and retention.

    8. Helpful (7)

      "Good team"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Fitbit full-time

      Pros

      Good team to work with

      Cons

      upper management seems to be lacking direction

    9. Helpful (8)

      "Director"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Fitbit full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Great culture on the marketing team
      Employees act like family and treat each other with respect
      Good amount of autonomy to get the job done

      Cons

      There’s big company vision, but have been struggles around execution

      Advice to Management

      Create more/better people managers
      Pay top talent
      Continue investing in culture

    10. Helpful (2)

      "I LOVE Fitbit! Great team and Great products!"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      Amazing mission to make the world healthier
      Best work/life balance I’ve every had
      Able to work from home
      Unlimited vacation time (still need approval)
      Smart people
      Supportive manager
      Great environment
      Employee discounts (50% off 10 devices per year)
      Lots of company and wellness events (onsite yoga, holiday party, picnic, product launch celebrations, speakers and race sponsorships)
      Pretty standard/decent benefits (medical, dental, commuter benefits, etc.)
      Pay/bonus/equity seem decent based on my experience - just need to get the stock price up
      Unlimited free snacks/drinks

      Cons

      No 401K match (need to fix this) but they do have a 401K and offer free financial advisors (new)
      Attrition is high so there is a lot of churn
      Inconsistent managers (some are great, some aren’t)
      Long term vision is unclear. Direction is shifting and it is very unsettling. CEO needs to give more clarity on future direction.

      Advice to Management

      I have a great manager and a great team. Not everyone has the same experience as me though. I suggest that there be more manager training to have better consistency. Some technical people maybe shouldn’t be managers. Keep focusing on improving engagement and communication (this has been getting better). Make sure you are hiring people who are
      scrappy and can tolerate a lot of change as I have seen people get really upset and leave when they are moved to different projects. Execs need to give more confidence to us about where we are heading and reduce churn/movement of people around.

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