Hightail Reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(99 total reviews)
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Ranjith Kumaran

56% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Hightail has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 99 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hightail 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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99 reviews
1.0
25 May 2015

Turnover town

Recommend
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Pros

Snacks and parties were good. Beer was encouraged. Had a good bunch of people to work with/for until they were fired. Great company motto: fungagement!

Cons

There were some 200+ employees at the time, but their turnover was incredible. There were so many mass recipient "goodbye" emails, that I started to save them to keep track, but I was fired before I ever tallied them up. My boss only lasted a couple of months before he was let go. A few months after that, the new boss (a nasty person), asked me into a conference room where I was presented with my exit papers -- meanwhile the IT department was clearing my desk. A few months later, she moved on to greener pastures herself. Oh yeah, and they took back my stock options while a friend of mine got to keep his.

1.0
8 Dec 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Good restaurants, decent location, some good employees and lots of parking space.

Cons

This place is a highly cut throat and political environment. Most of the upper management is clueless on what it takes to run a company. Management is not capable of running this company and is driving it down the drain. Employee dissatisfaction is at its peak. Morale is very low and upper management is directly responsible for this. It is not a technology driven or results oriented company. All management and products cares about is only the end date and they don't care on how it is achieved. It does not even matter if engineers are burnt out and resign. Engineers are just replaceable physical bodies without any value attached. No plans for profitability or IPO and they give you a boat load of crap trying to boost morale that is not there. The technical debt there is huge and the architecture is pathetic but no one pays attention to it. Weekly releases with such a horrible architecture is killing people. Management is extremely egoistic and self-centered and only care about themselves. CEO talks about doing charity when his own company folks are suffering. The attitude of the upper management towards engineering has to be seen to believe.

2.0
2 Jul 2016

Total brain drain

Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility is great here , learn new stuff and work with the latest apps and tools. Some co worker is great but then some I really wonder what they contribute or why they are even here !

Cons

Management clueless , too many change of directions and too many smart people leaving to find more interesting positions. Some manager are totally micro manger and focus on the wrong things and they need to move over and let go or this company is doomed.

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