Zignal Labs Reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(58 total reviews)
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Guy Churchward

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65% positive business outlook

Zignal Labs has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 58 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Zignal 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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58 reviews
3.0
24 Nov 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-Great catered food -Planned regular company events and outings -Commuter Benefits -(Ok) healthcare -401k (no matching, but they paid admin costs) -Decently located office

Cons

-CEO acts like a child, and gets upset if his company is referenced in a way that is not in line with his "vision". -Poor departmental management for smaller, growing departments -Lack of cultural diversity -Limited room for personal development -Paid 15% less than average for my position compared to competition

2.0
18 Feb 2015
Recommend
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Pros

As other reviewers have indicated, there are some superficial perks: Food, coffee, apple products, equity, happy-hours, team lunches, etc. I also made some good personal connections with folks working there.

Cons

Definitely agree with the other reviewer on some key points like: Having to walk on egg shells and an overall lack of direction due to disorganization. As an employee, this worried me most as another reviewer indicated and I saw first hand, "People have left or were fired unexpectedly with zero notice leaving some feeling uneasy." Good employees at Zignal have been cut loose for no apparent reason, people everyone (from my estimation) enjoyed working with and were great contributors. Most curious, was several of these employees were fired weeks prior to them being fully vested in their company stock. This was both confusing and frustrating for many, and also scary in terms of job security. No explanation was ever given by management to ease peoples minds, it was like any person let go had never existed. Overall, there are some other concerning things at Zignal that became very apparent over time. There is a huge conflict of interest between sales, product and outside stakeholders for the direction of the product. This division within the company creates a lot of tension and an incohesive atmosphere. Not to mention timelines and promises to clients being missed due to countless pivots in the product roadmap. (And engineers wasting time on features/updates that get thrown out on a last minute whim)

2.0
16 Feb 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Superficial perks of any startup: food, drinks, Apple products. "All employees contribute to the sense of success and commitment to our efforts" as the other review mentioned sounds relevant by upper management only.

Cons

Some people thinks it's "fun" working for a startup. That being said, we never know what "management" will decide on a daily basis. Meetings are constantly delayed, changed, or cancelled which cause bottlenecks and mandatory use of multiple workflow tools slow the overall completion of projects. Very difficult to freely speak to managers regarding anything. Rarely have the chance to review work by others which can cause things to break and people have to scramble putting fires out. People have left or were fired unexpectedly with zero notice leaving some feeling uneasy. There's a mentality if you keep your head and down and mouth shut it isn't so bad. Extremely polarized company. I would not recommend this to anyone.

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