Life360

Company with a good mission and one of those rare companies that still retained the original cofounders.

Solid user and revenue growth since 2016, and the COO (who was CPI back then) has done a very good job to refocus on product areas that mattered most.

Recent IPO in ASX raised a solid round to invest in future growth.

CEO, CTO and biz dev team have done an excellent job prepping the company for an international IPO in < 1 year.

Life360 always managed to hire excellent product managers, and I hope they can keep doing it. I have had the pleasure to work with at least 4 excellent PMs.

Android team consistently hired great talent and generally had a history of good team chemistry.

Remote hire is now an option, which means talent from around the globe can work in Life360.

WFH Fridays can be beneficial to most people living around the Bay Area.

Very competitive cash compensation in general. Though total comp is far below market when equity is considered (ISOs are no longer inexpensive).

Have been hiring a good number of people on H1B visa, which is great to see.

Despite his limitations, the CEO has matured significantly and led the company to reach some ambitious goals over the last several years.

Since fall 2018 the team structure and operations have been a big mess, and I really hope they have figured out a good solution by summer.

'Agree and Commit' culture, where if you disagree too often with management's practices you will be fired.

Manager driven teams, where they own both the team's goals and team members.

Feedback only goes downwards from Managers to their 'reports', with no way to review up your management chain.

You are 'up or out' for all levels.

Performance reviews: There was a great and effective process for several years until for 2019 they introduced a legacy review process that was really badly constructed.

iOS team had been volatile with a lot of turnover and have made several bad hires over the years, but they had their fair share of solid talent.

Design talent have been very inconsistent with a few exceptions.

Infrastructure team have failed to retain the best hires or having to fire the others on a regular basis. As the user base grows, Life360 needs to scale this team and retain their best people.

Not an ideal environment for parents. Yes I know they are a company for 'Families', but recent policies have made it difficult for parents. One of them was to maintain a certain number of work hours (8+) in the office from the Engineering leaders.

Have poor arrangements for new mothers in the office. Most of the parents that had children within the last few years have left, or got fired.

'Unlimited vacation' policy is regularly touted as a "benefit", but it is not. Managers had a history of communicating passive aggressive threats of the consequences of taking vacations longer than 2 weeks.

They don't need my advice, but thanks for asking Glassdoor :)