Whitepages Reviews

Whitepages has a culture that embraces blame. Much of the company lives in fear of being blamed by C-level executives for unmet expectations and therefor has no appetite for risk. Product and middle management are constantly fighting and throwing eachother under the bus so as to deflect that incoming blame. There is no trust at Whitepages by management at the C-level and therefor all kinds of micro-management tactics have been put in place. There is also a cultural divide among the engineering teams that isn't being addressed. This ranges from technology/language choices to how they interface with eachother. The people in a position to address this are ignoring this part of their job. Teams regularly talk bad about the other teams behind their back. Finally, the things that engineers are building are neither new nor innovative. In fact the things Whitepages engineers are building are just rewrites of things the company has rewritten at least 3-4 times and the same mistakes are being made. There's a lot of "re-arranging deck chairs" feeling going on.

Long hours, high employee turnover, CEO has no consistent vision for the company and lacks empathy for employees. Culture places short-term $ ahead of user experience and long-term growth. Constant strategic shifts mean your job could be the next to go at any moment.