Clever Reviews

4.0

73% would recommend to a friend

(82 total reviews)
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Trish Sparks

84% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Clever has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 82 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Clever 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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82 reviews
2.0
12 Oct 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits for full time employees are good. Co-workers are friendly.

Cons

They are constantly scrambling around back-to-school season to ensure they have enough staffing to support school districts during those busy two months. They rely very heavily on contractors, often requiring those individuals to work 12+ hour days for the duration of BTS (August-September, often stretching into October) to get the job done. The full-time employees are slated with training these contractors on top of their own normal duties. CEO has made public jokes about how they should have a greater proportion of contractors, particularly on the Solutions Team. Middle management is very poor, engendering a lot of resentment among individual contributors. Lots of burnout leading to extremely high rates of turnover. Managers will not hesitate to lie to upper management in order to save their own hide when things are not going well. The company does not have a sustainable plan for the busy season and approach it with the attitude of "keep working until you've finished your work for the day" Lots of 12+ hour days, even for contractors with no benefits. The promotion process is completely opaque and you have to fight HARD to *prove* you deserve the compensation schedule for the next level. They deliberately make it almost impossible to move up. The internal statistics they keep regarding metrics of individual contributors do not follow best data practices. With such an emphasis on metrics, they are not able to collect data accurately enough to gather useful information. Publicly lied about Customer Satisfaction Survey results, which are claimed to be at 100%, though their own data (which has been manipulated) will show otherwise. Where do I stop? This place is toxic. I highly recommend looking elsewhere.

3.0
13 Feb 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- superb engineering quality (most engineers are ex-FAANG) - meaningful work on a product that really makes a difference for students - coworkers are very social and it's very easy to make friends

Cons

- comp is much lower than average for SF - engineering department cares about results over people. this is shown by two things: 1. yearly reorgs where engineers have no say in what teams they're placed on 2. work/life balance is good on some teams but awful on others. when i told my manager that i was struggling with WLB, he responds "several engineers at my last company killed themselves. you should be happy that isn't happening here"

2.0
16 Dec 2021

STAY AWAY

Recommend
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Pros

They match the current perks and salary in the tech industry. A unique problem to solve in the marketplace.

Cons

Top to middle management is filled with people who do not know how to do their job -- yes, some of the tech team is brilliant but their business model and language in contracts to CSAT scores are either deliberately vague or just manipulate.

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