NationBuilder Reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(77 total reviews)

Lea Endres

100% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

NationBuilder has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 77 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The NationBuilder 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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77 reviews
1.0
1 May 2014

Horrible to employees

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some good people work there. Benefits are standard tech company benefits. On paper, they stand for laudable ideals, like open data and empowering leaders.

Cons

Firing many people for no reason, with no notice. What you are told when you are hired is vastly different than your experience working there and potential for advancing. CEO screams at employees regularly. He also undermines engineers' work. One of the VPs is a tone-deaf misogynist. You won't be happy here.

1.0
15 Dec 2019

Toxic, cult-like management

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay (for Los Angeles, that is. if this is what motivates you, move to the Bay area to work in tech)

Cons

Toxic, emotionally manipulative, authoritarian management. Constant gaslighting. Employees forced to participate in "circles", a group-based business version of Scientology's "audits". Disgusting practice. Employees were explicitly instructed to create 5-star reviews on Glassdoor, so read the reviews on here with a very critical eye.

1.0
29 Aug 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very cool product! The company has a new office in LA and there's a great snack room and coffee maker.

Cons

Leadership has no management experience and the employees suffer because of this. During the course of time I was there I saw the management hire employees, move them across the country, get them into leases in expensive LA apartments, and not warm them that that they had an additional interview and could be fired after their 3 week training. There are a lot of people who quit jobs, moved to LA and signed leases, only to be fired by the CEO after 3 weeks. This is insane and if felt almost dirty working there and seeing this going on. While I was there company moved into a massive new office in a higher end building and likely spent millions on renovating it, just to fire at least 50 people in one day a few weeks after moving because of financials reasons. Now the new office sits at least 75% empty. That's just one example of the type of mismanagement that goes on (on a smaller level) everyday. The mismanagement, along with the cult-like mandatory staff retreats, would make any creepy, third-world dictator from the 70's proud. My advice would be to avoid the company. It's only a few years old and there are already more ex-employees than current employees. They also seems to fire people without regard for their performance so there is really no way to feel secure in your job.

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