Couchbase Reviews

4.1

77% would recommend to a friend

(465 total reviews)
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Matt Cain

78% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Couchbase has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 465 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Couchbase 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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465 reviews
3.0
10 Sept 2020
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Pros

Really good work culture flexible timings and responsibility to work on your project Really helped during pandemic by giving all the assurance to employee

Cons

No outing(not because of pandemic, but in general), No facilities, no perks, no culture specific to India team. If you are expecting any Fun activities from company, you gonna regret it. Their idea of fun is to host a small snack party once in a year Really lagging in terms of corporate culture, like hiring process is mess. Salary is not on par with market. Many candidates opted not to join for the lack of good offer High attrition rate

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Couchbase Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience working at Couchbase. We encourage feedback at all levels and are continuously looking to improve our employee offerings and experience. While we have a different perspective than you, we would be interested in hearing more details about your views. If you wouldn’t mind sharing them, we’ve created an anonymous feedback form here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SNGLQPJ. We are very proud of the transparent environment and diverse culture we continue to develop, which comes from the top down. We’re sorry your experience was not a positive one, and we wish you the very best in your endeavours.
3.0
13 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Really good and very challenging quality work to work on. The technology space is a happening right now and will be in the foreseeable future, so good work is guaranteed for long time. The people I work with are extremely talented, down to earth and helpful people. It is good pleasure to work with such people.

Cons

- Virtually non existent perks. The pay is also way less than the average for the work that’s done. The management keeps telling that they are working on it, but most of it seems to be an eyewash. - Very small workspace. With 40 plus people sitting in such small place, things get really crowded. In a tech company, having enough meeting rooms, adequate bathrooms are some of the basic necessities, which is clearly lacking in Bangalore office. - No clear career path defined. When the question is put repeatedly to the upper management about this, they give the same standard reply that things are in pipeline. But having worked for few years, I haven’t seen any concrete efforts being put in this area. - There is no way to give feedback about the manager and management. This is a crucial part of any good organisation. But no efforts seemed to be being made to address this issue. - Some teams are micro managed to great extent. This stifle talents and makes work environment not great to work at. - Lack of any team activities. All the management seems to care about is work. Or take the team out for lunch when some exec from the HQ visits. Other than this, there are no fun activities that happen in the office. - The management seems to waste quite a bit of money of the rare gifts to the employees. In an effort to give same gifts to all employees across the globe, HQ sends quite often useless gifts across. Most of the times we feel, if more thought couldn’t be put in the gift, just monetary equivalent would have been much more useful.

2.0
15 Jun 2022

A great workplace that existed once.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great culture within the teams. Great product. Smart people.

Cons

All the recent reviews about the recent VP are correct. He is bringing in the well known AWS culture. Always pushing teams with stricter timelines. Tells you on the face that he doesn't want to hear 'No'. Engineers being transferred among projects without much thoughts. Everyone is feeling burnt out within few months of him coming onboard.

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