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The company is targeting money

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Thumbtack for 1 year
September 29, 2018
San Francisco, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Perks are good: The good thing here is that you get 3 meals a day, except Friday evening. And the food is cooked by the chefs.

  • Fully paid dental/medical/eye/life premiums

And people there are friendly.

Cons

BI is not doing a good job, and neither are the leaders. No one has an idea why the user amount is going up or going down. Everyone is just trying to meet the company goal of increasing user amount and per-user revenue. Which is insane! If you get $50 per user, it is likely that those pros on Thumbtack will ask for a price $60 higher than Craigslist. In turn, users will leave Thumbtack.

There should at least be a prediction on how the company will do using historical data. And at which factors the business will change, and in what ways. It seems this model is not even under construction.

Advice to Management

Target on what's valuable to users, not money.

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