Squarespace Engineering Department Employee Reviews
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
All hands is a good balance of visibility and transparency with honest answers to many of the employee questions.
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They set clear goals and are transparent about success metrics
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Clear objectives and expectations for the team.
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Open communication and clear articulation of vision.
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I am supported and allowed to determine whats the best direction for the team
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Communicating the same message down through their orgs.
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Be more proactive on business and engineering strategy rather than reactive.
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Having and adhering to meaningful business ethics, or at least being able to plan, coordinate, and actually follow through on anything.
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Take responsibility for specific goals, objectives and KRs. Invest more in research and development. Support more long-term thinking and work not rooted in short term KRs.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
Salary and comp sites are great
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Equity grants and a combination of additional benefits.
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Compensation is competitive thus far, we'll se what the private equity package looks like
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The equity packages and coverflex monthly benefits allowance
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the equity portion of the package
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Salary is ok there's is a lacking of paying annual bonus
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I was lied to about my equity compensation and no one will take accountability or make it right despite my repeated attempts. Being made whole, and accountability for the people who lied and refuse to take accountability, would make me feel better
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I'm don't feel undervalued. I entered as a mid frontend developer, and it was fare, but I'm seeing my colleagues enter with the same level as me and need help to code and still lots to learn that for the position it should be assumed to have. But yeah as MID I think the salary should be more higher
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My base salary is lower than I'd expect even after promotion
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Have been performing a role that is above my level for a couple of years. Besides that, I am aware that my starting compensation is below average (and within the company), which then contributed to a slower growth than average, regardless of performance.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Everyone is actually really nice and honest.
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Nice environment always willing to help each other
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They're extremely smart, extremely passionate about the work we are doing and fairly assess every opinion
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Team is very collaborative and technically knowledgable.
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Everyone on my team is vested into the team's success. We are transparent and honest with eachother
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Product management often literally ignores communication with my team. As in, literally refuses to respond to basic questions. Engineering leaders often focus solely on V6 and core business use cases, leaving other teams to fend for themselves without any support. Teams ignore roadmap commitments.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
I really believe people are very honest, and it results in a healthy attitude to address problems sooner. People are comfortable giving feedback.
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Always keep to improve the project with new ideias
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Good product vision and collaborative, friendly work environment.
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I enjoy meeting everyone I have met so far, we have people who understand their roles and how they can help
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Everyone is very supportive and seem honestly happy and driven to be working at Squarespace
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Maybe don't do things that make everyone want to leave all at once
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I'd start by seriously reviewing the company's stance regarding WFH. Employees lost free lunches, breakfast, snacks, drinks and we have to battle to obtain somewhat decent hardware to do our work in safe conditions. I believe that good posture is part of "safe conditions".
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Rewards and compensation need a huge revamp first. Teams need to be given clarity over what outcomes matter and then given autonomy to make it happen, and the Empowered team model is not an answer for that. Culture needs to emphasize hustle and delivery, not bureaucracy and work / life balance.
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What did you like most about the interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
empowerment to change and make progress
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Finishing tasks that brings real value to the project
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Food, drink, people and conversation
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The people, food is great
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Exciting product & project goals and good technology.
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Fire the CEO and CMO.
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There seems to be a specific dollar amount on our "woke" culture, and it can be thrown out for the right amount of money or exposure -- witness continuing to support Joe Rogan
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Lack of rewards / no path to significant compensation growth on an annual basis. Lack of clarity or empowerment to focus on important work. Lack of incentives to retain good people. Too much celebration of mediocrity.
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What do you like best about your company?
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