Pachama Reviews

4.7

94% would recommend to a friend

(24 total reviews)
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Diego Saez Gil

100% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Pachama has an employee rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars, based on 24 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Pachama employee rating is 22% above average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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24 reviews
3.0
10 May 2024

On a downward trend

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Pros

- Wonderful mission - Smart, engaged team - Cool tech

Cons

- Leadership team doesn’t seem to understand the problems we’re facing - Little opportunity for upward advancement - Culture is shifting away from honest love for nature toward predictable love for money

5.0
5 Oct 2022
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Pros

I tell this to every interviewee, and many of my colleagues and friends. The most important thing for me coming to Pachama was to find values alignment on integrity, transparency, and commitment to the environment. It is rewarding to work at Pachama precisely because none of this value speak is lip service. We see the financials of the company on a regular basis, we discuss our overall strategy and shifts as they happen. We are at 75 people right now, and while we could always be more diverse, the nature of remote work and an emphasis by many individuals on hiring diversity, does create space for a more diverse team. Our comp is indexed to the SF Bay Area, but folks live all over, which IMO leads to more equitable treatment as every contributor is paid their worth, not based on how much their cost of living is. I love this remote work environment, we have an emphasis on writing things down not just meeting for meeting’s sake. We respect each other’s off time but also know that we can flex our hours to fit our life. I never worry about going on PTO, and it better be an actual emergency if I’m ever going to reach out to a colleague on the weekend, at night, or on their holiday. I think the axiom “the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today” sums up our ambition nicely. The climate and biodiversity crises are urgent and we are running on borrowed time, but the best way to move forward is to take deliberate and thoughtful steps, through collaboration and perseverance, to achieve what maybe seems impossible today.

Cons

There’s definitely a sense of drinking the kool-aid, which I’ve had at every mission oriented startup I’ve been at. So it will be important for us to hire for culture-add not just culture fit. While it’s fun to know you share like interests (climbing, meditation, camping, general nature-connectedness), this could create groupthink and an exclusive feeling over time that deters diverse thinkers/backgrounds.

5.0
10 Feb 2022
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Pros

-Climate change is the fight of our lifetime, Pachama isn't solving this alone, but it is working to solve super necessary issues and unlock the potential to scale nature-based solutions. Having this purpose personally gets me out of bed excited Monday morning. -Whether they're a 20-year sustainability vet, or a converted adtech worker, everyone has their own unique story of how they found their way to the company. I've never worked at a place where everyone, no matter what their role or background, is so aligned with the greater purpose of the company. -CEO: This is my fourth startup, and one thing I've learned is that culture starts from the top. Diego leads with passion and empathy, and this bleeds down through the entire organization in what we bring to work and how we interact with each other, even when we disagree. -Flexible work hours: We're a fully remote company and a results-driven one at that. No one is micro-managing the work you do, and you can do it from wherever your heart desires.

Cons

-Pachama is still an early-stage startup, and like a teenager going throw a growth spurt, not everything is easy. We're figuring out problems on the fly, which means we don't always get it right, right away. We're growing like crazy, but we still only have so many humans working on so many problems. Everyone has to wear a lot of hats and do more with less. No different than other startups, but a reality nonetheless.

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