Bluehost Reviews

Pros

Bluehost uses opensource software, so most problems can be solved via google search of a solution has been posted.

Cons

Everything is opensource, and the devs are too busy with new projects to fix anything.

Pros

Loved my time at bluehost. They took pretty good care of their people and the team I worked with was amazing. Great flexible and unlimited vacation policy.

Cons

things did change when they were acquired by endurance international. At some point the ceo of endurance decides to lay off virtually everyone in the Utah office. I was among those laid off and that was... rough. When it came down to it endurance would take advantage of and screw over their people when they thought it would benefit them. But the bluehost ceo really tried to take care of us with amazing severance packages and such.

Pros

Pay was decent. Benefits were good. Catered lunches. Random trinkets. Occasional remote work.

Cons

Worst management ever! Changing random expectations. Always feel like you might be fired. Random firings. Random quitting! Tries to make everyone become jack-of-all-trades to the point where no one knows anything to any depth. Corporate leadership is changing constantly because they realize the boat is sinking. Stock price keeps dropping. At some point this company will go bust. New (bad) product ideas are being pushed for development all the time. Developers keep getting yanked from one project to another. Projects being abandoned all the time. Too many band-aids on old projects. Middle management is being yanked about and upper management is clueless. No trust for employees. No training for new employees. No usable documentation. This is easily the worst place I have ever worked and I have worked for over 20 companies. Do not work for these clowns.

Pros

The employees are great Lots of free food

Cons

Ownership only cares about bottom line Laid off hundreds of people just so they could leave utah

Pros

For some employees, the company offers extensive flexibility and moderate benefits.

Cons

The brand that I worked with was acquired a few year ago by a EIG, which has its pros and cons. To focus on the cons, the future of the brand and its goals are [obviously] at the whim of the larger corporation. This results in a level of ambivalence amongst the project managers of the brand since their input appears to have reduced steering power; essentially, some of their input can be found as only suggestions and the direction of the product they are assigned to is very minimal. Second, another toxic behavior the company [unofficially] endorses is the hard separation of departments. This leads to many teams becoming lost on how to achieve the companies’ goal. Consequently, the obstruction of communication results in a “silenced” culture where none of the teams and their employees communicate with each other. Third, the dev team is forced to utilized a deprecated coding language that lacks support from the original creators. This results in a comically large amount of technical and hiring conflicts (since they have to hire devs who know this language or can "quickly" learn it). Only apply to a software position here if you wish to upkeep a monolith. Fourth, the employees in the dev/qa/marketing/support side appear to be ambivalent/unmotivated of the products they are working on, specifically, no one appears really enthusiastic to create and manage the tasks they are assigned to. This behavior regularly drags down the atmosphere of the office and team moral. Fifth, since the reorganization that occurred within February of 2017. Several brands were collapsed into four pillar brands that needed to be focused on. As a result, many dev teams were redirected to work on the aforementioned products/brands without contest. This resulted in a mass exodus of dev team members which hurt team moral and productivity.

Pros

This is a tech company that should ride off into the sunset. In the beginning the perks and joy was great. The past is the best part of this company.

Cons

Management and bro culture. It's tricky to be a company when the mother ship calling the shots is in a different state.

Pros

I loved how this place kick started my into my technical career. The people were great, it was tight knit, and everyone always wanted to help each other out to collectively be better.

Cons

There was always poor communication between upper-management, management, and the lowest level. That and they decidedly laid off 500+ destroying the awesome employee dynamic they had.