Culture is both inviting but can be toxic and immature - Manager Backblaze Employee Review

3.0
23 Jun 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great social programs with fantastic energy. No real deadlines, good work-life balance, and flexible remote working policies. Some great people scattered throughout the org who understand how to run mature companies. There's some excitement from branching out from consumer backups to the more enterprise-focused B2 product

Cons

No real deadlines (yes, it's a pro and con), weak leadership, and some teams spend $ like water while others are forced to expend inordinate amounts of energy to save pennies. At times the company is run like a retirement home geared towards employing obsolete empire-builders who have lost their edge years ago instead of focusing on running an effective business. This results in insane politics where industry-agreed-upon practices are tossed aside and some groups "own" technologies or processes they have no business running. Ignorant mob mentality in business social collab. platforms. Compliance is always a struggle because people only care about security or privacy if it's their own privacy. People who would have been fired from other functional companies continue to exist and waste multiple teams' time and energy. Equity compensation for most is less than worthless

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5.0
4 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excellent company! The people you work with are fantastic. I have an amazing manager and work with some highly skilled people.

Cons

Sometimes work life balance can get skewed.

2.0
11 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It seemed the company was on an upswing

Cons

Morale is in the dumps. Layoffs have severed trust in the company. CEO has turned over his entire staff, meanwhile the issue is with a failure of vision, attention to project management execution, and meddling in the roadmap that produced no benefits

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