Fitbit Claimed Company

Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle. read more

EMPLOYEE PARTICIPANTS: 52

TOTAL RATINGS: 645

CEO: James Park

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Eric Friedman — Co-Founder, CTO & Director at Fitbit

Executive Bio

Mr. Eric N. Friedman co-founded Wind-Up Labs, Inc., in 2002. Mr. Friedman is Co-Founder of Fitbit Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. He is an experienced technologist who loves to create and scale innovative consumer applications. At CNET / Webshots, he led the engineering team for one of the largest photosharing sites in the world. Before Webshots, he was a co-founder of Windup Labs, which created HeyPix, one of the first P2P photosharing applications. Mr. Friedman served as an Engineer Manager at CNET Networks. He served as a Founding Engineer at Epesi Technologies, where he helped develop content and application syndication middleware. He served as a Software Engineer in Microsoft's Real-Time Collaboration Group. While at Microsoft, he developed user interface and server-side code for both the Exchange Instant Messaging and Chat Servers. He served as Technical Member of the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft Corporation. He has been a Director at Fitbit Inc. since March 2007. Mr. Friedman holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Yale University.

Co-Founder, CTO & Director Impact on Engineering Department's Culture

Eric Friedman holds the highest position within the Engineering department at Fitbit — Co-Founder, CTO & Director, and therefore has influence on the culture of the Engineering department. The average employee described daily life within the Engineering department as a Moderately paced and challenging 8 hour day. Employees within Fitbit's Engineering department are invested in Fitbit's goals, and feel as though there is not space for career growth.

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Are you satisfied with your work/life balance?

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Positive	75%
Negative	25%

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Executive Team Culture Ratings from Fitbit Employees

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10%

Fitbit's Executive Team scores in the Bottom 10%
of similar sized companies on Comparably

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

100

Who ranks the Executive Team the highest?

Experience - 6 to 10 Years 56/100

Gender - Female 54/100

Experience - 3 to 6 Years 48/100

Who ranks the Executive Team the lowest?

Experience - 1 to 3 Years 30/100

Tenure - 2 to 5 Years 34/100

Department - Marketing 38/100

Fitbit's Executive Team at a Glance

Based on 35 ratings, Fitbit's employees are less satisfied with their Executive Team and give them a “D-” or 47/100. On average, Women provided higher ratings for their Executive Team compared to Men.

Fitbit's Executive Team ranks in the Bottom 10% of other companies in San Francisco and Bottom 10% of other companies on Comparably that also have 1,001-5,000 Employees.

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