Glean (CA) Reviews

My advice for potential candidates is read all of the reviews closely. All 5 star reviews are (somehow!) almost identical and the same themes run throughout all negative reviews. Culture is toxic from the top down but feedback is only allowed in the form of extreme positivity. Team members are fired without warning or insight into the decision Time off not as advertised. During recruitment process you're told it's unlimited but once you join there's a hard line of 5-15 days. Pay is way below market value. Very little diversity If your goal is to join a company with a great product and potentially high stock value in the future, Glean is a great choice. If you value company culture, work life balance, making market rate for your salary, or diversity, Glean is probably not for you.

Time off has become a joke. Previously it was unlimited, now they still advertise it as such but it's a hard 15 days, and then you need a really really really good reason to take more. When they added time off tracking they pretended it’s just for more info, but it’s become quite strict. Leadership keeps making decisions in private, and then just doing internal PR moves about the decision, pretending it’s still up for discussion, while they move forward with it even if very few people agree. When there’s any dissent, they publicly stop it. Work-culture wise, the company is in a very scary place. If you own even a semi-important product, you’ll be bombarded with questions. Questions that are easily found if you use our own product that we’re building. If we’re not using it, who will? Work life balance has gone downhill to the point where if you mute your slack during the weekend, your first part of Monday is answering all the questions people DM-ed you on slack. Benefits are sub-mediocre, same with holiday time off. They never add new holidays; they just juggle them around, swapping one for the other. The quality of new software engineers has gone downhill, probably because the onboarding is very bad. This is a bit scary since it might cause bigger issues later on. Might also be because hiring has shifted from “everyone needs to agree” to higher ups pushing people through the process. Lots of our fixes are now just bandaids to problems people have added. The number of ‘urgent’ cherry picks every release is hilariously large.