Mercury Reviews

4.4

82% would recommend to a friend

(114 total reviews)

86% positive business outlook

Mercury has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 114 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Mercury 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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114 reviews
1.0
2 May 2024

Lying and toxic leadership. Encouragement of throwing teammates under the bus.

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Pros

In its early days this place had lots of very kind, fun and smart people. Pay was decent, however promotions are drawn out for years and backtracked by management constantly.

Cons

This place will gaslight you, lie about your job performance to your face (management and HR) even if you track and pull up the stats for them to review. Then they will fire you. They are doing quiet firings for well over a year now. It is disgusting. They promote bullying amongst team members. Do not hold those being toxic accountable, but reward them instead. Expectations are that you will work overtime and weekends, even if they tell you that is not expected. Get ready for that quiet firing. This place has gone downhill fast. They "encourage pushback", but time and time again will fire anyone who speaks up or voices a different opinion ( this is across various departments). They "promise transparency" but will lie to everyone's faces in team meetings on how the company is doing and what the expectations are. Immad the CEO is not who he seems to be. Be careful. Upper management has fired some wonderful leaders, and hired toxic, abusive monsters to overwork and gaslight the teams. It is such a shame. So many kind, intelligent, caring people have been fired. Another thing to note. They always tell you that the reason someone was let go is due to their performance. As I already said, this is a lie. I feel bad for all the good people we lost. (For years people would say they feel there is strong favoritism of certain individuals. Management has said they will resolve, but nothing has been resolved.)

2.0
11 Jan 2023

Not worth the headaches

Recommend
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Pros

Mercury has some obvious perks being a high end startup. The freedom is nice. You can work remotely under any time zone. The salary is competitive. The promotion opportunities are there if you ask.

Cons

The company seems to be going into a decline. Too many people were hired in the past year and quiet layoffs have been happening. The company has been losing a lot of money and the future is definitely in question, even if leadership is keeping it quiet. The management team is not transparent and can be aggressive.

2.0
20 Sept 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Product’s fire, and I get to use Haskell. Super remote-friendly—we literally traveled cross-country and didn’t use PTO. "Unlimited" PTO, but it's more like a few weeks. The offices are pretty nice too, not cramped or budget vibes.

Cons

The workload is insane. Every single day is a new emergency, and the second one comes up, we drop everything to handle it. Then leadership comes in like, "Why’d you stop working on your feature?" But we’re just following orders. So we switch back to features, and guess what? Another emergency. It’s this constant ping-ponging, and nothing ever gets fully done. How are we supposed to finish anything when every day is a fire drill? And can we talk about management? They’re completely useless. Instead of asking leadership the right questions or pushing back, they come out of these executive reviews with new orders and just dump them on us. And then at the end of the cycle, the product manager complains that the roadmap changed—like, hello? Weren’t you in the same exec meetings? We weren’t even there! We’re just trying to do what the manager and PM are telling us to do. And leadership? They change direction every single week, like nothing matters. They expect everyone to drop what they’re doing like it’s no big deal. What’s the plan here? What’s the actual priority? Do they even know? It's like they think we have endless time and energy for their whims. And then, when I’ve had PTO scheduled for weeks, they’ll hit me up during an "emergency" like, "Can you just do a little bit while you're off?" Why bother having time off then?

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