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Not great as "Hyped"

Quality Analyst
Current Employee
Has worked at Indeed for less than 1 year
November 15, 2016
Austin, Texas
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Benefits - I think this is the one big thing why so many people have stuck to Indeed since they first began.

  • Free food - all the time, breakfast, lunch, snacks
  • Open PTO
  • Balanced life (unless you are unlucky to get a lazy lead/manager who would play politics to keep himself safe)
  • Work from Home
  • Relaxed environment
  • Diversity
  • Great happy hours
  • Lots of freebies and tees

Engineering teams might be better; not sure though.

Cons

Products are not really planned and implemented well.

Every person who needs to prove himself starts a new product/application, leading to redundancy and confusion.

Lack of a well-defined process. Lack of documentation.

Most of the teams are new and have been in existence since mid-2015. Hence, they have all the problems a new process would face, as would the team members.

Advice to Management

I think your way of retaining people is by giving them benefits, but your focus should also be on having...

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