Curalate Reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(60 total reviews)

Apu Gupta

58% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Curalate has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 60 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Curalate employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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60 reviews
1.0
14 Jun 2018

A sinking ship helmed by misguided frat boys

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Pros

Reasonably good product. Most of the people who work here are great (while they're still there.)

Cons

The employee retention rate is abysmal. Expect to become the most senior member of your team about a year in. All the fun little startup perks fade fast once they started hemorrhaging money. They have no idea what their customers want, and most of the design decisions are made in the form of angry yelling from the CEO. The entire direction of the product will change about every 6 months, while everyone reminds you "it's not a pivot." Expect to be lied to, repeatedly, during your time here. Also the culture is awful. Lots of stupid ceremonial stuff, heavy drinking culture, and feeble attempts at disguising a lack of documentation, training, and direction as "an opportunity to make your own path." You'll be forced to sit through a biweekly meeting, supposedly under the pretense of transparency, but managing to say nothing about the state of the company. Ask anyone who worked there during the layoffs if they saw them coming, and they'll all answer no. Don't you think if they were being as transparent as they claim, that would have become obvious through these meetings? Avoid this place like the plague.

2.0
8 Mar 2018

Stressful work enivornment, lots of turmoil & turnover

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Pros

Curalate is a company filled with smart, dedicated people. Despite all of the company's struggles, there are a lot of bright, creative, and hardworking people. Depending on your role in the company, you get to be around a lot of smart mentors, great middle-level managers, and interesting and innovative technology.

Cons

Unfortunately, the great people at Curalate don't make up for the excess turnover, constant restructuring, and complete lack of vision. We've built some amazing products in a short amount of time and then simply lose our direction. It's hard to tell what space we're trying to carve out for ourselves, or if we have the best leaders who can take us in the right direction. We're certainly not the first company to tout transparency as a value with little follow-through, but the current structure of the organization is so stressful and uncomfortable it's almost of a guessing game of who won't be there next week. Overall it makes for a terse, convoluted atmosphere and a lot of tense within the organization, which doesn't even account for the internal tension between teams.

3.0
7 Feb 2018

Waning company at best

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Pros

As with most smaller companies the best thing about Curalate is it’s people. Most are driven, bright, and genuinely fun (if not trending on the young side). For the most part the company encourages experimentation and selecting the right tool for the job with minimal barriers. There’s a lot of good tech and while there is lots of technical debt it’s activley addressed

Cons

Company has stagnated with no real product vision or direction. Most of the top people are leaving in droves and a lot of the work is “keep the lights on” stuff. The staff skews heavily junior now, many being new college grads with little to no experience. Morale is low and what used to be driven, excited people are now lackluster and sloppy. Nobody can really say for sure what Curalate is. Is it an Ecomm platform? Is it product discovery? Is it social media analytics? It’s sort of all and nothing at once Many positions lack any career ladder (except for some who play political games). For the most part there are no upward titles or positions to move into.

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