Planet Labs Employee Reviews
Out of 58 Planet Labs employee reviews, 69% were positive. The remaining 31% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Planet Labs improve their work culture.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Self awareness. Learning the commercial earth observation business.
Need to understand and accept that there is competition out there
Fundamental management soft skills. Some folks have it from prior roles, many do not.
Management, strategy, hiring, underatanding their customers
Not firing people with ideas that are different from theirs.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Need 401K match, charitable donations match, fitness subsidy. Annual RSU grants
Paying people what they are worth
Planet often brings in tenured employees, under-levels them when compared to market. There is no real career growth. Rampant favoritism and office politics is often what leads to office promotion. You may see a 2 year experience person and 20 years experience person in the same team
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Don't get bullied by malevolent management and executives. Stand your ground or quit
Toxic culture, classic high school mean girl behavior, gaslighting
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Culture needs to change, he process needs to be better to weed out toxic management
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
They don’t listen to customers. Only care about the satellites. Customers say the data is garbage but no one will believe them. The good news is the person who designed the sensors recently left and he didn’t know what he was doing and constantly worked around product and the custom
Toxic culture, lack of people management and hr processes
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