Energybox Reviews

3.1

37% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)
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Nicolai Wiest

37% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Energybox has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Energybox 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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31 reviews
1.0
16 Feb 2022

Unprofessional & Unreliable

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are some professional and friendly people there.

Cons

Culturally, EnergyBox is more concerned with doing things fast than doing things right. Consequently, their equipment is often poorly installed and frequently malfunctions which makes it impossible to get reliable information from their own internal platform. This, in turn, leads to management to become increasingly impatient and quick to anger whenever any setback is discovered, which creates a culture of paranoia and fear.

1.0
18 Dec 2023
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Pros

You can feel good about trying to improve businesses while contributing to a green economy.

Cons

You are taken advantage for trying to improve businesses while contributing to a green economy. Extremely underpaid, with no career growth, and no equity given when joining. When equity was offered, the management team tried changing the vesting schedule from what was in the signed contract. Pretended it was a one off innocent mistake - however I confirmed with multiple colleagues that it was not. Management team did not reach out to these colleagues to make it right. There is a huge rift between the Hong Kong and Nashville sites. No one was on the same page. The CEO is a good salesman, but when we were on a team as part of an offsite it was clear that he had no idea what he was talking about. Talked about trying to benchmark data across sites, but it didn't make any sense (not even at a high level - I understand he's not a data scientist). I actually quite like him on a personal level - but the entire management team just absolutely lacked the required engineering understanding to build a stable platform. Way too focused on signing new customers, while existing customers had so many issues they were refusing to pay.

3.0
27 Jun 2022
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Pros

Overall a positive work environment. Developers and project management colleagues are respectful and easy to work with. Small startup environment allows you to make an impact from day 1. Great opportunity to learn new technologies and hone your coding skills, if you're willing to put in the work.

Cons

Software team is understaffed and lacks leadership, given the company's ambitions. High turnover rate. Too much dependence on a select few engineers to carry the load.

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