Great Mission, Leadership/Vision Struggles
Great Mission, Leadership/Vision Struggles
Mission: The mission is wonderful and attracts coworkers who are deeply passionate about the space. Everyone is very friendly.
Impact: The app has an incredibly strong brand presence. People will learn you work for Headspace and start telling you how impactful the app has been in their lives.
Mind Days: Every other Friday is off. A 10/10 benefit, it is a major reason for retention, I'm sure.
Below Market Rate Salaries: Like many places with strong missions, management can get away with paying low salaries because people want to work at Headspace.
Product Leadership: No strong higher-level direction. I think there is a fear to “tarnish the brand,” so they are hesitant to commit. Often abruptly dropping projects and changing directions… until the next one.
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Headspace Interview Experiences
Backend Engineer
This was truly a strange and disheartening experience. For my first phone screen interview, I waited on the video call for twenty minutes alone before signing off. My interviewer forgot. I honestly should have just ended things there, but I was wil
Senior MLOps Engineer
The talent acquisition team was clear about the interview steps and pay expectations, and was very responsive throughout. * Recruiter round: Discussion of my resume and an overview of the role. * Hiring manager round: More details about my backg
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
I received an invite for a phone screen round at Headspace from a recruiter. I had confirmed a time for a call, only to not be called by the recruiter and left ghosted by the team, without any feedback or anything.
Backend Engineer
Los Angeles, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2018This was truly a strange and disheartening experience. For my first phone screen interview, I waited on the video call for twenty minutes alone before signing off. My interviewer forgot. I honestly should have just ended things there, but I was wil
Senior MLOps Engineer
CanadaSeptember 7, 2025The talent acquisition team was clear about the interview steps and pay expectations, and was very responsive throughout. * Recruiter round: Discussion of my resume and an overview of the role. * Hiring manager round: More details about my backg
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
United StatesSeptember 1, 2025I received an invite for a phone screen round at Headspace from a recruiter. I had confirmed a time for a call, only to not be called by the recruiter and left ghosted by the team, without any feedback or anything.
