Family Matters! - Anonymous employee Social Tables Employee Review

5.0
11 Apr 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

All the reviews on here talk about the awesome new office space; free snacks and soda; the fun social culture; and the exciting work that we do. All are true. I think one of the things that hasn't been written about much is something important to me and many like me who are both career-focused and family-oriented. A lot of what you'll see written in articles portrays Social Tables as a young, hip, fun, and hard-working environment. While definitely the case, I will say from first-hand experience that the company is also flexible and extremely supportive of changes in lifestyle--from having kids to moving cross country. As long as you prove your worth, continue to work hard, and contribute as a high performer, they understand that family comes first. This is just a great example of a young company continuing to adapt to curveballs thrown its way during its growth phase. So far I have been impressed with the way everything has been handled--yes, even some of the negative things that have gone on.

Cons

This isn't necessarily a "con" as much as it is a heads up to anyone considering employment with Social Tables. The work is challenging and the pace is fast. You need to be ready to come to work every day and shrug off some stressful situations. One of our mottos is: "fail fast and often."

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Social Tables Response
10y
Thanks for the review. I'm glad that you feel supported and that you posted this view of the company.

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5.0
17 Dec 2019
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Pros

- Social Tables was acquired by Cvent in October of 2018 - Way bigger pond to play in, lots of opportunities within Cvent for career growth - Best of both worlds - we retained our office, (great space in DT D.C.), our management team, a lot of autonomy; but have Cvent support in lots of efforts - Cvent has been helpful in breaking new ground with customers that before didn't work with us - Product has stabilized (although there are still some challenges) - You have to work hard (but you do have the opportunity to play hard!)

Cons

- The integration was really tough. We lost some people and almost every process was updated. - Cvent is way bigger and we had to level up to their contract cleanliness, etc. It was hard. - The good news is that 90% of integration projects are behind us - We have a few ongoing misalignments with the product team, but it's definitely better than it was a year ago

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4.0
11 Jul 2015
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Pros

- Incredible professional development! The company really cares about the growth of each employee. There are always brown-bag lunch talks given by guest speakers and/or employees on all kinds of cool topics. The company also gives a $1000/year education stipend to each employee that can be spent on things such as attending a conference, online courses, etc... - Awesome culture driven completely by the people! There are hobby-oriented clubs for pretty much anything you can think of (movie club, basketball club, restaurant of the month club, push-ups club...you can even create your own if you want!). Everyone is very friendly and easy-going. Has a very family-like atmosphere to it. - Amazing engineering culture with a strong emphasis on using modern open-source technologies to solve very challenging problems. All of the engineers have a true love of learning and are always trying to grow their skills and knowledge. Great sense of camaraderie amongst the Product Development team

Cons

The company did suffer from employee work-life balance problems and miscommunication issues between upper-management, but most of those have been addressed in the past half-year. Sometimes the company can try to be too ambitious relative to the number of people we have to actually execute on the ideas.

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Social Tables Response
10y
Thanks for leaving a review and for the thoughtful management feed back. Keep the feedback coming!
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