Unbabel Reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(169 total reviews)

Vasco Calais Pedro

59% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Unbabel has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 169 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Unbabel 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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169 reviews
3.0
29 Sept 2021

Incredible Vision, great potential while a lot to transform getting there

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great People and fun to hang out with - Decent Pay - Awesome perks as Weekly Surfing and Paddling Class. - Interesting Customer Base (Brands and their business) - Great Product Vision. - Some really great folks in the Senior Management Team

Cons

- Blame Game Approach, tendency to blame the client (customer has too high expectation) across different teams as (Support, Operations, Engineering) - Communication between Engineering and Customer Facing one sided (Market to Engineering and not back). - Engineering too absorbed in their own world - bi-directional communication, interaction and delivery is mediocore. - Engineering and Product Management chase the market rather than being ahead of the game (market). Very bug focused rather then driving the product forward towards the market needs. - Meetings and Escalations often involve tons of people, with few doing the heavy lifting and contributing towards a progress. (Almost like being at a multinational while it is a Startup in transition to a Scale Up)

1.0
6 Apr 2023

Exploitation at its finest

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Everyone aside from Leadership is suffering so you form close bonds based on the mutual struggle.

Cons

It's a classic story, really...Outcast founder receives VC funding - gets highlights and becomes obsessed with all the attention he never got only to drain company funds to keep that alive. Every company decision is based on emotion and the peter-pan syndrome of the CEO who will never be the visionary he desperately wants to prove to everyone he is. When you have a leadership team full of yes people and quickly let go of anyone who dares to value reason or common sense that mentality trickles down into the team and unfortunately results in peoples suffering to pay for the reckless decisions made by an irresponsible executive team. Why spend 1M on a retreat in October and lay people off in January using the economic downturn as cause when the economy was just as bad in October. Why spend millions to acquire additional companies when you haven't properly integrated the company you acquired a year ago? It's all politics and wannabes. No one with integrity and an actual spine would stand for such a lack of regard for decency. Not to mention the product, which has been stagnant since 2018, can't compete with what competitors are providing.

2.0
13 Dec 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- the project is awesome and revolutionary - sometimes the atmosphere is joyful and the company is full of interesting people

Cons

- do more, faster, always: there is no work-life balance at all - nobody cares about you and there is absolutely no respect for each others time - management has no organization skills at all - there are way too many young and inexperienced employees, which leads to some parts of the work being badly developed

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