Scale Reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(411 total reviews)
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Alexandr Wang

64% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Scale has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 411 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Scale 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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411 reviews
1.0
17 Apr 2020
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Pros

Scale employs talents with a brilliant mind to create really cool products. The company grows very fast so you are going to learn a lot, things that are way above your paygrade

Cons

I recently left scale to pursue another opportunity, but the primary reason I left is because of the severe burnout from the pressure and the culture toxicity that I experienced working at Scale for almost a year. After I left, I thought things would be better and that I could move on knowing that the worst has passed. But I still felt angst and anger towards Scale that oscillate during my regular days. I reached a point where I felt suicidal and thought about ending my life. And that's when I knew that I needed help from a professional. I consulted with a psychiatrist and I was diagnosed with PTSD. I wanted to surface this so current employees would know that this work culture is beyond abnormal and to prospective employees to be wary of this company.

1.0
25 June 2020
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work with some smart people

Cons

There have been reviews that state that the engineering team is treated better than operations teams, I'm here to state that this is also false. There is a non-negligible chance that if you are an engineer, you will go to federal prison. No need to share names, but it has been covered in the news. Why risk your freedom for some stock options of a company that isn't scalable? They are literally a consulting shop posing as a SaaS company. They heavily rely on contractors paying them barely livable wages from developing countries to draw boxes around objects.

1.0
9 Nov 2020
Recommend
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Pros

There's actually ML work to be done since Scale does label data.

Cons

- Scale is run by a kid who has never worked a job before. And it shows. - Meeting culture: everyone wants to have 3 hours of meetings every day. Managers "need" these to "understand" what's going on. - Extreme micro-management: incompetent managers don't trust what they don't know. - Management has no training and is completely unable to do their job. When I approached my own manager with management problems that they alone can solve, they told me "I wish someone would step up on the team to solve this." Lol -- that's you! - Extreme favoritism: people are fired without cause if a manager doesn't like you. - Leadership incompetence: there are people "running" ML projects that don't understand what ML is nor what it can and cannot do. - Every person in management is arrogant and lacks the humility necessary to learn how to effectively inspire and manage people.

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