Tubular Labs Reviews

4.4

85% would recommend to a friend

(67 total reviews)

John Saroff

34% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Tubular Labs has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 67 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Tubular Labs 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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67 reviews
1.0
8 Mar 2018

Worst time of my life

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I learned what to look for when it came to evil companies

Cons

Leadership is rude. They say they "own you" the day you are hired. Shady business practices. You lose your soul doing analytics for youtubers who are lame uploading content that makes the world a worse place. Founders Alison and Rob do not handle things, they have others do dirty work. I am not from the US and they made me think this is the best place to work. Now I work at a place that is nothing like Tubular and am respected and have friends.

1.0
27 Dec 2020

Wish I Never Joined

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Good benefits - Competitive Pay - Free Snacks - Unlimited PTO - Great if you're self motivated. NO ONE will hold your hand and tell you that you're doing a great job.

Cons

Overall I did not have a good experience at Tubular Labs. - Lousy onboarding. I was introduced to some new technologies when I started but never received any training or instructions, even when I asked. As a result, I was criticized for making mistakes. - No bonuses, except for employee referrals. - Extremely tight deadlines. Lunch time was spent eating at the desk, working. I never felt like I could take a breather. - Constant, time-wasting micro-management. Our team had to document all tasks and subtasks every week and how many hours we worked. We were not able to make any minor decisions about our project without management approval. And if it was not in line with what the manager's vision is, then forget about it. My manager would ask to check in after every single step of my project and will make comments and suggestions over and over again until you realize you have been through 10 revisions and a half hour conversation about whether to use the word "increase" or "rise". - Barely any racial diversity. - Pip Culture - The atmosphere is very casual however it seemed "off" and cliquey. I was told multiple times that Tubular Labs is not a place for introverted people like me. - The hiring process was unnecessarily long. I went through 7 steps for a low level position. One of those steps included a SQL test, though I did not even need to know SQL to perform my job.

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Tubular Labs Response
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First, I would like to thank you for sharing your review. While the majority of our employees have a pleasant experience, we understand that it is hard to get 100% Net Promoter Score. With that said, we take feedback to heart and our goal is to continue to learn and improve the employee experience. Hiring is a process refined over and over, and we learn from every new hire we make. Processes change and adapt. When new hires need more onboarding, we accommodate that need (once we learn about it) - in this case, we provided extensive onboarding, delivered not by one, but two managers. Additionally, we hired an external executive coach to help in two areas: receiving and providing feedback, and building alliances, so we can move forward with confidence. After a few months of giving our best try, we mutually agreed that this wasn’t the right fit. Tubular took full responsibility and instead of terminating the employment as a result of a failed PIP (performance improvement plan), we provided support and career coaching sessions to assist you in finding a new role that would be a much stronger fit and make you overall much happier. On your second point, we fully admit that our DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) work is far from being completed. We are very open about our percentages with all our employees, and we are working hard to improve them. In 2020 we implemented a series of DEI inclusive leadership training programs, workshops, created a dedicated employee resource group to partner with HR on DEI goals, and to continue to challenge our current processes and policies. Currently we are happy to report that our Tubies speak more than 20 languages, and employee satisfaction measured in our October 2020 engagement survey was above 80% in terms of feelings of belonging and being accepted by leadership and immediate colleagues. Once again, thank you for your review. We wish you best of luck!
2.0
18 July 2018

Good Work/Life Balance

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Leadership is transparent and understand their flaws, just not sure what action they are actually doing to change or willing to change. Staff is generally friendly. towards each other.

Cons

The organization wants to grow and run fast but hasn't set up the processes or enabled people to make autonomous decisions to allow for that to happen (lots of bottlenecks throughout the company or siloed departments from years of miscommunication or lack of communication). There is way too much top-down management for a <100 person company. I've worked my career in large corporations and honestly seen more politics here than some of my previous companies. Mangement acts like they have it together, but the reality is that they are just treading water like the rest of us and get through one funding round at a time.

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