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 Software Engineer
SLEAZY RECRUITER RESCINDED OFFER I went through final rounds and got a written offer with a deadline. Before that, the recruiter called me out of the blue past work hours. When I returned his call the next morning, he pushed aggressively for a comp
Senior Android Engineer
I applied to Headspace in early May, and within about a week, I had a call with a recruiter. At first, the communications were a bit staggered, but once we got to the technical screen, the entire process was really smooth. Once I passed that, we did
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 Software Engineer
United StatesAugust 24, 2025SLEAZY RECRUITER RESCINDED OFFER I went through final rounds and got a written offer with a deadline. Before that, the recruiter called me out of the blue past work hours. When I returned his call the next morning, he pushed aggressively for a comp
Senior Android Engineer
AustraliaJune 1, 2020I applied to Headspace in early May, and within about a week, I had a call with a recruiter. At first, the communications were a bit staggered, but once we got to the technical screen, the entire process was really smooth. Once I passed that, we did
