30 Nov 2023
Speechify Reviews
4.4
87% would recommend to a friend
Cliff Weitzman
91% approve of CEO
89% positive business outlook
Speechify 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 Speechify 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
2.0
21 Oct 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
I got to work with some great professionals and people. The people at Speechify are interesting. Great engineers in the company. You can learn from them. There's a lot of diversity as there can be people in your call from 5 different countries at the same time. You can bond with your teammates about how ridiculous the management and leadership is. This makes you feel like you're not alone in how it feels to deal with leadership.
Cons
The company is ran by young people. They live the college start-up story, which means leadership doesn't have real professional experience or life experience. The company is ran by brothers and friends, so there's a lot of ego amongst the decision makers. We joke that you just tell leadership what they want to hear because they won't listen otherwise! The culture is most like a U.S. college fraternity. For 1 example, there's 0 female engineers in the company! They are currently "Quiet Firing," so your favorite teammates might be stressed-out or disappear tomorrow. TOXIC: leader compares you to someone else in the team who's much better than you. Then, he compares that person to YOU! This is supposed to make everyone feel like they need to work harder to be the better person on the team. Instead, we joke how "I THOUGHT I WAS BETTER!" They have a principle to "Always be hiring," meaning to refer people to be hired by Speechify. When you refer your colleagues, they will drop them from the hiring pipeline and not tell you. This can strain relationships, so don't actually refer anyone to the company. Leadership treats everyone that isn't in the leadership team as freelancers/ contractors. You will see someone get fired and disappear, then you know not to ask anyone. You'll see a colleague post a "good-bye" message on Slack, then leadership deletes it so no one sees the person is leaving. They pay some people so low, so you feel bad for your teammates who are getting ripped off. CEO only cares about celebrity. Either meeting celebrities or being one himself.
2.0
4 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
The product has a lot of traction and makes a real difference for many people; the company is well funded; flexible remote working hours; most people are really nice and smart
Cons
The CEO has no idea how to run a product company or retain talent, yet possesses enough arrogance to keep proclaiming publicly that he's "a great CEO". All designers and developers are treated as low-grade freelancers and are required to keep track of hours and to occasionally send screenshots of their work. The general attitude inside the company is to throw a lot of low-quality deliverables on the wall to see what sticks, no matter how bad it looks or works. As a result, the product is extremely buggy, users are leaving bad reviews and good people are leaving.
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