Drift Engineering Department Employee Reviews
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awesome, fat-pace, support, autonomy, customer focused, scale, hyper growth
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
The investment in getting to know each employee and working to ensure their growth within the company
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The executive team has always been very open and honest with communication, reasoning, and changes.
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They are aspirational with their vision. They are no-nonsense about how they run Drift as a business.
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Awesome vision. Living the Drift leadership principles. Truly supporting autonomous teams.
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their commitment to diversity and putting employees first
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Fixing engineer churn so that engineering isnt constantly under pressure
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
The take home pay allows me to live comfortably
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My salary and having my vested options purchased in the acquisition.
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The compensation itself and health insurance.
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The financial benefits are great, but it's not every day that you thoroughly enjoy going to work every day. Compensation is all about the rewards you get in exchange for the work you put in, and man is it rewarding working at Drift.
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
I make currently 30% under market for my role
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as a software engineer we are paid at the lower than other tech companies in the area, but I do feel like we are paid fairly for our work
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Bottom 10-20% of salary bands for similar companies/roles.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Everybody is willing to help one another
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Everybody is knowledgeable, still eager to learn more, and concerned with getting cool things done.
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The know how to get the job done
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My team is close because we're all dealing with the same shit storm and frustration that we've been given. My manager is awesome.
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Open direct honest supporting committed hard-working
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
I love how diverse our staff is. I interact with a wide variety of opinions and backgrounds every day
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Everyone at Drift is so accommodating and happy to support their peers.
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Drift wants to be inclusive of everyone without being stupid about it and giving into backwards modern thinking.
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extreme ownership - inclusive and supportive of differences
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the commitment to diversity and representation
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Respect engineering more. You constantly laude sales and marketing and others, and routinely assert management wins in product over the teams that actually delivered
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What did you like most about the interview process?
The interview process is very much people over process. It can be easily tailored to fit the company or canididates needs
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getting to meet lots of smart, impressive engineers
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At the time, the company was still really small, so it didnt feel like a rigid process. Much more focused on how you can talk through a problem and identify various solutions rather than trying to give people esoteric questions about information they would never use.
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Highly personal, big emphasis on culture fit.
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It was fast and real.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Interacting with customers and knowing I made an impact on their experience with Drift
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Seeing what we build get used, improved, and enjoyed
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Working on interesting problems with a level of autonomy
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Having the time and freedom to solve problems in the way that they should be solved with the support of my team to do so.
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autonomy - customer focus - hyper growth
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Stop making me feel like I need to sacrifice all waking hours to deliver
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Transparency - execs will sometimes change things and not acknowledge or announce it, word will just spread from person to person. Speed - working quickly is important but there is definitely such a thing as too fast - can result in mistakes and sub par products.
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What do you like best about your company?
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