Social Tables Reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(70 total reviews)
avatar

Reggie Aggarwal

Not enough data to show CEO approval

66% positive business outlook

Social Tables has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 70 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Social Tables employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

70 reviews
1.0
19 Mar 2016

A company in need of a serious wakeup call

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

New office is nice. Some people are great and work really hard! CMO is great and should be a model of how things should be done.

Cons

Social Tables has all of the elements on the facade of a great company- a new office, startup culture, and young employees who work long hours. You can think of Social Tables like an onion. Once you start working here, it feels like a dream job, and then as you start to peel back layers (as you are there longer), you realize that there are some serious issues with the company. It starts from the top with in-experienced leadership. CEO is far too personal with some employees and lets friendships interfere with good management (and unwarranted promotions or opportunities). There is much pettiness involved- as is the case when valuable people left much to the chagrin of the CEO- and secrecy surrounding what really happened. You say the company has won a lot of industry awards for being so awesome?! Well- when you begin to realize that these awards are won due to one person writing in a sterling review of the company and not a general consensus, those awards begin to look fairly artificial. Apart from the young leadership up top (well, some older C level talent is being hired now) there is young and first time leadership and managing happening throughout the organization and it is clear based upon performance. The younger managers are really not in a position to be managing anyone - they do not instill confidence and are ineffective at leading the company forward and getting employees to be better versions of themselves (1 caveat is the CMO who is great and has a happy department despite his young age (so, it can be done)). Now- top level talent- well you can say goodbye to them because this company is either purging themselves of talent through firings that are questionable at best (get ready for all of your internal communications to be read by suspicious and petty leadership) or talented individuals across the company are leaving to pursue better opportunities that pay a decent wage for DC standards. Now- don't go complaining about salary at Social Tables, because the CEO will enter an emotionally anger charger tear filled speech to the entire company about how that "is ridiculous". Many employees are seeking to leave, top talent has already left, and management can't seem to find a solution to the many shortcomings of the company. Do yourself a favor and seek alternate employment if possible. A former top employee said so them self that, "the 3 year outlook of this company doesn't look great and it most likely won't be around). Get ready for an incredibly understanding and forceful reply from the VP of People in the comments section and take what you will from it. **You may note that there are so many great reviews posted on here besides this one- those are requested at the behest of leadership to help with hiring**

avatar
Social Tables Response
10y
Hi Tabler - thanks for your feedback. I do respond to every post here good or bad to acknowledge that we've seen it and that we take your views seriously. I appreciate the feedback and welcome any suggestions you have to improve - we have several tools to help you with that, Dan and I each have office hours each week or if you need to be anonyomous you can use our weekly survey.
2.0
25 Feb 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free snack food and drinks, fun coworkers (well, until they're fired), cool office.

Cons

Everything. Run. Do not take a job with this company. What was once a great company has quickly spiraled into the last few chapters of George Orwell's 1984 as they desperately try to put a lid on all the employees slowly waking up from their "koolaid comas". The two main problems with this company are the management and the failure of the product team to develop anything that could stay ahead of the curve. Lack of any vision by management, VR, and our larger competitors will make us irrelevant in just a couple years. The CEO/founder is quirky and irreverent and for some reason thinks it's a great idea to put the most inexperienced and youngest people in leadership positions. He created a culture that shamed anyone who didn't drink the corporate koolaid and quickly ridiculed people who dare treat this as a professional job and not a Jonestown prayer circle. This is likely what caused the downward spiral that has resulted in the slow purge of employees over the past year after scaling way too fast based on inaccurate predictions. It's not a good sign that the most tenured and senior employees/execs are fleeing ST like rats from a sinking ship. These are the people who see the balance sheet, so they are the canaries - take notice. If you've never been put on a "PIP" (performance improvement plan) and want to see what it's all about, then definitely come to ST. You will be guaranteed to be put on one at some point. There are a handful of reps here that were set up for success and who reaped the profits from inbound "Glengarry" leads for years and are now suffering because after the reorg they actually have to perform and it's glaringly obvious they only succeeded because the CEO played favorites with them. Everyone else is left with the "scraps" (absolute junk inbound leads with ridiculously low ASPs). For people interviewing - whatever they say your OTE will be, divide that number in half. New employees do not make much money here beyond salary - and no, that's not a challenge to you young and hungry salespeople...it's a warning. Take your talents elsewhere and let a better managed company feed your hunger. Management reorgs and changes the comp plan constantly and tries to spin it as if it's better (*insert cheery HR/exec team with plastered on smiles and clap circles*). Yes, these changes are better for about 5% of the team, but the other 95% of the team is much worse off than before. They also slashed basic benefits, which is a sign of ever slimming gross margins. This company had succeeded in bringing in new talent based solely on the illusion of a vibrant culture. They drive it into your head that culture is everything, when in reality they couldn't care less. It's all just gaslighting to keep you focused more on how fun the happy hours are and less on your shrinking paychecks. They want everyone to be a big happy family, but fail to see how disastrous that is when they start systematically executing large groups of your "family" (as has been the case with massive layoffs this past year). The CEO is the type of person to high-five you while he shoves the knife right in your back, without even blinking. To everyone still working here - wake up, look at yourself in 10 years, and ask yourself how much you could have done with 10 years at a new company. To anyone in the interview process - ask the tough questions and don't just talk to the people they steer you toward. Grab the person who isn't doing cartwheels around their desk and get the real story before you A.) set your career search back 6 months or B.) waste a year in a dead-end job before being involuntarily sent to the unemployment line!

avatar
Social Tables Response
9y
Hi Tabler - I wanted to let you know that I saw this and I hear you. I see that you are concerned and frustrated and it's clear that you took a lot of time writing this. I have so much to say to this post, but mostly, come and talk to me (Sam) or Sarah if you can - I promise not to wear a fake smile or lead a happy clap circle. I do want you to be happy and successful and it sound like we have some areas to improve to help you get there. I will add some perspective and see if we can get you to a better place - 3 years is a really long time at such a young company so I know you have seen many changes during your tenure. I want to acknowledge that your experience is your truth and it looks like this may have been building for a while without an outlet, which is unfortunate. Thanks for directing people to Tiny Pulse as well, we do review and respond to every post in there.
1.0
21 Oct 2014

Lack of well communicated expectations

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They use neat technology. Even though there is not a lot of maturity in the product development process, there is still room to express yourself.

Cons

My needs were not addressed. When I expressed the need to maintain certain hours, management used my salary and extra benefits as a lever to try to manipulate me into working at times that I was not comfortable with.

Viewing 1 - 3 of 70 Reviews

Glassdoor has 70 Social Tables reviews submitted anonymously by Social Tables employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Social Tables is right for you.