CircleCI reviews

- They claim to want to help you excel in your career, but when it comes down to it, they'd rather hire outside the company. - Management lies directly to your face and when you call them out, you get answers like "oh, I forgot you can see that stuff" or "I'll get back to you on that." - Everyone I worked with is extremely unhappy and the moral has gone down significantly since I started working there. - They want to rapidly grow the company causing the company to lose its culture, have a high turnaround when it comes to staff, and preventing people from getting raises/promotions. - After talking with my team, we found out that although they claim to pay based on where you live, people living in cheaper areas were making a good deal more than staff who had been there a long time even though career backgrounds were very similar. - People in management roles are selfish and don't help develop their direct reports to excel in their careers. - The way they treat their employees is extremely unfortunate. - You may work an elevated role to in return not be paid for your time doing that role.

- Apparently, a lot of your success at CircleCI is dictated by the team that you are on. Some managers aren't as willing to develop internally. - Competing priorities are causing real problems for the business. I.e. salespeople don't care about retention so they will burn a deal pushing towards growth but that is in direct opposition to my priority on the CSM team. Doesn't seem sustainable. - There is no product vision. We basically check boxes to find feature parity with the other competitors but it's reactive. While I've found our product team is willing to talk with customers, the follow through on implementing the feedback (or even closing the feedback loop) is not a strength at the moment. - This is a very challenging product to sell/support. A lot of SRE's don't see the value in changing their CI/CD practices without a significant amount of data to back up how this will fundamentally help their bottom line. We haven't been able to effectively communicate this via our marketing strategy. - Lack of transparency. We get a lot of emails from various departments providing updates but the numbers don't seem rooted in reality. (i.e. # of SQLs goes up but revenue doesn't change).