Algolia disrupts market with Search.io acquisition, ushering in a new era of search and discovery!

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Algolia Claimed Company

Algolia is revolutionizing search and discovery by providing the world's most powerful API-First Search and Discovery Platform with its unique hybrid search engine, which is a combination of keyword and vector-based semantic search via Neuralsearch technology, in a single API. read more

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TOTAL RATINGS: 7100

CEO: Bernadette Nixon

Carlton Baab — Chief Financial Officer at Algolia

Executive Bio

Carlton Baab is Algolia’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer. He plays a key role in managing the financial strategy, global finance organization, procurement, and mergers/ acquisitions and integrations. He also ensures that Algolia has the right systems in place to execute its business strategy.Prior to joining Algolia, Baab shepherded Lithium, CKS Group and Alfresco through periods of explosive growth in revenue and customer acquisition as well as managed the IPO of CKS Group, with Goldman Sachs as the lead underwriter. A Harvard Business School and University of Southern California graduate, Baab brings significant M&A experience having managed the sale of five companies and seven acquisitions.

Chief Financial Officer Impact on Finance Department's Culture

Carlton Baab holds the highest position within the Finance department at Algolia — Chief Financial Officer, and therefore has influence on the culture of the Finance department. The average employee described daily life within the Finance department as a Comfortably fast paced and challenging 8 hour day, stating that they are happy with their work life balance. Employees within Algolia's Finance department are invested in Algolia's goals, and feel as though there is space for career growth.

Answer	Percent
Yes	92%
No	8%

Are you challenged at work?

Answer	Percent
Yes	100%
No	0%

Are your company's goals clear, and are you invested in them?

Answer	Percent
Yes	92%
No	8%

Are you satisfied with your work/life balance?

Answer	Percent
Positive	100%
Negative	0%

Is your work environment positive or negative?

Answer	Percent
Great	46%
Good	46%
Average	8%
Poor	0%
Horrible	0%

How would you rate the value & quality of meetings at your company?

Answer	Percent
Yes	92%
No	8%

Does your current company provide you meaningful opportunities for career advancement?

Executive Team Culture Ratings from Algolia Employees

TOP

Algolia's Executive Team scores in the Top 5%
of similar sized companies on Comparably

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Do you approve of the job your executive team is doing at your company?

95% Yes

Who ranks the Executive Team the highest?

Department - Finance 97/100

Department - Marketing 96/100

Ethnicity - Hispanic or Latino 95/100

Who ranks the Executive Team the lowest?

Department - Admin 63/100

Gender - Non-Binary 63/100

Department - Product 86/100

Algolia's Executive Team at a Glance

Based on 485 ratings, Algolia's employees are very satisfied with their Executive Team and give them an “A+” or 90/100. On average, Women provided higher ratings for their Executive Team compared to Men. Also, the Finance department thinks more highly of the Executive Team relative to the Admin department.

Algolia's Executive Team ranks in the Top 5% of other companies in San Francisco and Top 5% of other companies on Comparably that also have 501-1,000 Employees.

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