Squarespace Employee Reviews
Out of 1558 Squarespace employee reviews, 94% were positive. The remaining 6% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Squarespace improve their work culture. The Admin team, with 100% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Squarespace compared to all other departments at the company. The Operations team offered the most constructive feedback, with 13% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Review from HR Dept
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Communication appears to be very transparent with the state of business affairs and any relevant events regarding the departments.
Review from Communications Dept
Leadership is visible and gives kudos to their team and offers their team opportunities to present/showcase their work.
Review from HR Dept
Tranparency and goals are clear
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Their compassion and strategic thinking
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Logical and also transparent, at times
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Appreciating employees - there is little to no recognition and pay is getting worse and new equity model is terrible and leaves no real long term incentives. We don't have big parties or anything fun anymore either. But they're also not great at prioritizing and scaling the business
Review from HR Dept
Communication, stop hiding things and pretending they don't know.
Review from HR Dept
People at higher levels than team leads asking for calls to see how we get on, totally irrelevant and fake.I don't want to be made to say my pronouns before every interaction, it's irrelevant, I respect different people might want to use different pronouns, but that's them, not everyone.
Review from Operations Dept
Communicating the same message down through their orgs.
Review from Engineering Dept
They need to have more influence, get rid of middle-management, or give them the opportunity to actually manage instead of doing other tasks. Just showing support without having the influence and acting on it is not helpful.
Review from Customer Support Dept
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Comfortable with salary for Dublin-based roles
Review from Product Dept
Healthcare Benefits, Travel reimbursement, unlimited PTO
Review from Communications Dept
The benefits here are great.
Review from HR Dept
PTO and benefits healthcare etc
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time off, compensation and medical benefits
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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
Review from Engineering Dept
More money, a different structure (like a bonus), and something better than options.
Review from HR Dept
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
Review from Engineering Dept
A very clear roadmap of clear career progressions along with corresponding compensation increases. It feels like the work is repetitive and and it's hard to feel motivated to continue a repetitive job without a clear goal to work towards such as defined compensation increases or promotions.
Review from Customer Support Dept
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
Review from Engineering Dept
What are some of the best things about your team?
Everyone is collaborative and helpful. People are thoughtful and considerate of your time.
Review from HR Dept
compassion, friendly and helpful all around supportive
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empathetic, collaborative, intelligent, reliable and fun to be around
Review from HR Dept
Everyone is actually really nice and honest.
Review from Engineering Dept
The collaborative nature of our work and partnerships
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Too much isolation and silos. Nothing to include remote workers or make them feel part of the company despite being 50% of all employees
Review from HR Dept
They should come more prepared to meetings. They should bring agendas and ideas.
Review from HR Dept
Teamwork should be encouraged more, if leadership could lead by example.
Review from HR Dept
Sometimes people seemed closed off or very much to themselves. And there isn't a ton of community on my specific team, and I'm positioned in an unclear manner on the product vertical I support, so it's made developing working relationships a little tricky.
Review from Product Dept
I meant to say Yes on the previous question. Certain coworkers can do better with their speed and agility
Review from HR Dept
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Human first approach - allowing time for personal matters and putting health first
Review from Communications Dept
It's a laid back place. You can dress casually. It's also very social.
Review from HR Dept
friendly, compassionate, and transparent leaders and colleagues
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The natural empathy and genuineness of my colleagues. Everyone here is true to themselves all of the time and its refreshing
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Pace of work in most situations
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
a more sustainable long term strategy and ability to execute
Faster decision making would benefit greatly
Review from HR Dept
Maybe don't do things that make everyone want to leave all at once
Review from Engineering Dept
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".
Review from Engineering Dept
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.
Review from Engineering Dept
What did you like most about the interview process?
That I got to meet people I'll be working with daily, not just the recruitment team
Review from Customer Support Dept
Interviewers asked similar questions and told me they wouldn't be talking to each other in between, so I could be telling similar anecdotes to all three.
Review from Customer Support Dept
Meeting the people I'd work directly with.
Review from HR Dept
I met with members of different teams that allowed them to get to know me early on and share pain points that I'd have to combat once I joined. The transparency was key early on.
Review from HR Dept
the people were wonderful and gave me a sense of the type of the qualities the company values.
Review from HR Dept
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
The flexibility and the people I work with make me most happy at work.
Review from HR Dept
the product itself and the people
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collaborating with my colleagues on interesting problems
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Earning a salary that supports my family
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empowerment to change and make progress
Review from Engineering Dept
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Generally very repetitive. Most days are almost the exact same. Having more responsibilities would for sure help.
Review from Customer Support Dept
New hires need more time spent to see how tenure agents work, not weeks and hours of theory, that at the end we barely know how to apply. Also, in terms of benefits, more inclusive with working mothers, like reduced hours or flexible schedule.
Review from Operations Dept
This would help: More flexibility, better Workforce Management for schedules, so changes within the day would not be needed, Less pace as there are too many mistakes being made, and seeing other colleagues taking shortcuts. No 100% chat days, no double chats as this is recipe for mistakes.
Review from Customer Support Dept
There are too many blockers and bottlenecks in our approval processes
Review from HR Dept
The executive team is bad at decision making and trusting people
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What do you like best about your company?
Opportunity to build an amazing team atmosphere
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Communication, speed, and better alignment on goals
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