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      Tackle.io Reviews

      3.6

      54% would recommend to a friend

      (72 total reviews)

      John Jahnke

      69% approve of CEO

      41% positive business outlook

      Tackle.io has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 72 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tackle.io 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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      72 reviews
      2.0
      25 Aug 2023

      Rapidly changing company not trending in the right direction

      Staff software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Very competitive salary, benefits and stock options.. Wellness and internet stipends. Culture was great in the beginning. Awesome company offsites. Remote first company. Super cool gift box sent to you when you joined. HR onboarding felt very organized and supportive. Severance was pretty generous and they made an effort to help impacted employees.

      Cons

      The developer experience is beyond abysmal. Running and deploying anything is terrible. Monitoring and testing is barely a thing. I would find things that were broken for months in production. Pull requests could be very contentious and uncomfortable. If a customer wanted an unusual feature, leadership would force it to get built. Teams are tribal. Collaboration could be difficult, and in some situations, unfriendly. If a project didn’t go well, fingers were pointed. Team onboarding was mostly non-existent. New hires were expected to figure things it out without much documentation or support. Team culture didn’t encourage helping new hires. Very little effort made to introduce new hires to the actual product. The engineering culture really declined and things like “hackathons” were canceled. People quit contributing to lightning talks and knowledge guilds. No one saw the value anymore. A really complicated progression system was built out and never fully implemented. Performance reviews could take hours to complete. Many managers didn’t even bother doing them. Transparency is massively on decline and people do not trust the executive leadership. They kept saying we had years of runway over and over again. Layoffs were top down and it clearly wasn’t based on performance or talent. They got rid of a lot of superstars at the company and kept a lot of people who probably didn’t really fit anymore.

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      Tackle.io Response
      2y
      Firstly, a sincere thank you for taking the time to share your perspective. Every bit of feedback we receive is an opportunity to reflect and refine, and yours is no exception. We're genuinely saddened to hear about your experience. We pride ourselves on building not just great products, but also cultivating an amazing engineering culture and developer experience. It's evident from your feedback that there have been aspects where we've missed the mark. We genuinely take this feedback to heart and are actively working to address these concerns. We are currently working on an internal development platform to help make the developer experience better and more consistent. Transparency is a core tenet of our company ethos, and we acknowledge the concerns you’ve raised about it. Ensuring that our employees trust and have faith in the executive leadership is paramount. We want our entire team to feel informed, valued, and engaged with our vision. We will redouble our efforts to be transparent with all employees. Once again, thank you for your insights. They serve as a catalyst for us to reinforce our commitment to a culture of transparency, support, and growth. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors, and we genuinely hope our paths cross again in better circumstances. Warm regards, The Tackle Team 🌟
      3.0
      21 June 2023

      If it seems too good to be true...

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Excellent culture to start (Tackle in summer of 2022 was the best). Benefits were impossible to beat, with clear effort made on genuinely useful benefits for remote employees, not just lip service. The remote-first culture was amazing for those who liked and appreciated remote work. Tackle hired a lot of really great, talented people, and many of the people I worked with I would eagerly jump at the chance to work with again.

      Cons

      - Departments outgrew themselves, and communication broke down, leading to siloes and sour feelings all around. - Communication over people quitting or being fired was nonexistent; you had to guess based on who wasn't on slack anymore. - Roadmap was nonexistent for months while the product team leadership underwent shuffles, then seemed to have no clear direction whatsoever. - C-suite would go on week-long vacations in the middle of projects or processes requiring their sign off, holding up major initiatives for weeks at a time. - Insane amounts of meetings. Entire days spent in meetings with seemingly no actual output or progression. - Not everyone who joined seemed to actually like or do well in a remote work setting, which contributed to the communication breakdowns and siloes between teams

      2.0
      28 Feb 2023

      Stressful times ahead

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      The team members and opportunities to network with big hitters at AWS, Google and Microsoft.

      Cons

      You can feel the company culture caving in, ever since the lay off there is a distrust towards leadership (rightfully so) and you can feel direct managers walking on eggshells, it makes for an uncomfortable working environment. Aside from that the pressure from AWS, Google and Microsoft is being felt, all of the Tackle updates are bumping up against big updates from the companies, Tackle is still a few steps ahead but in a few years time when AWS catches up Tackle will have nothing special to offer. This is evident and coming from the top down, I expect a second round of layoffs within the next year!

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      Tackle.io Response
      3y
      Thank you for your honesty and transparency. Our goal is not to have anyone at Tackle feel this way - given that, we recognize how a layoff can impact culture, trust, feelings of transparency issues, and morale. We want to assure you that we're doing everything we can to make things better. This is a time of great change in an evolving and complex market. Many Tacklers (me included!) are incredibly excited about this adventure, one which involves creating a category of Cloud GTM while building a strong team, learning, and growing together. Our relationships with the hyper scalers continue to grow in strategic intimacy and our customers are thoroughly enjoying working with our teams on building the Cloud GTM fabric they need to succeed. -Adam Boyle, VP of Product.
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