Grubhub Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

- work/life balance is great if you don't have a micro-managing manager - employee education/conference budget is nice (even though it's less money than past years) - the people building tough and complex solutions are super smart and welcoming

Cons

- mentoring at any level is dismal, so it's hard to level up with genuine experience - the people below management hardly get their credit - because there's no C-leadership in Product or Design, there's a lack of overall vision (esp with the merger) - office culture was great but overwhelmingly white. remote vibes are quiet online - the adaption of orange was rushed and not tastefully done

Pros

where do I begin? First off they give you a $50 line of credit to order food from grubhub with no delivery fees. The work/life balance couldn't be any better. They have daily virtual yoga/meditation/fitness sessions you can win gift cards just for attending. They have daily trivia questions and you can win grubhub giftcards. Management will also give you one random day off here and there where you don't go on your laptop or do any work related things that day. They truly care about there employees mental health wellbeing. The Commission structure is also amazing with Double digit checks if you put in the work. They also have support groups for different cultures and races that are open to anyone to join to.

Cons

I have not experienced any downside or cons.

Pros

- weekly meal credit - good work-life balance

Cons

The company essentially is myspace to facebook. A few critical problems i've seen during my tenure here within the product org: 1. CPO is completely checked out with no vision brought to the actual product, thank god he had left the company & i don't think grubhub has any intent to hire a new CPO at all 2. the company functions at a very top down apporach - this is fine if you just want to execute what senior leadership says; however this also means your ideas are easily killed by middle managers because they have to do what their boss told them to do - even with data/facts on your hand supporting your argument, your idea is worthless to senior leadership and they think their idea is the best. Unfortunately, they are far too detached from reality to know that none of those ideas would actually work. no product retro is done to track either those initiatives work or not because it's been pushed all the way from top down. 3. for whatever reason, finance department runs this company - they have strong leverage they can pull and all other departments are like 2nd tier citizens to them. Also new CEO is effectively the CFO who has been running the company for the past decade, our CEO has checked out like a long time ago. Thanks to finance's dominance in this company, all projects are focus on profits (i.e., making every bit of money from restaurants or customers as much as possible) rather than forming a coherent long term vision. 4. since there are not really that much things to do at middle management level because ideas from ICs are killed and upper management just force us to do project XYZ, middle managers have nothing to do than micro manage the hell out of you on your individual projects. also thanks to this, your manager essentially is your blocker for promotion therefore no career advancement at all. Bottom line: this is a place where innovation dies & if you are interested in saying "yes sir" - this is the place for you

Pros

The company values work life balance and offers flexible PTOs. And overall I think the work culture is healthy and motivated

Cons

Getting promoted at Grubhub can be a little hard and its mid-year/yead-end review processes are not very well-structured. it does not offer very competitive pay and benefits/bonus to motivate their employees

Pros

- Unlimited PTO - $50 weekly Grubhub money that you can use to order Grubhub anywhere since the Covid started. - Good work/life balance - Interesting problems to solve - Management attempts in diversity, and inclusion. Before Covid: - Office + culture + coworkers - Lunch catering + work events - Monthly enterprise townhalls that gave a sense of purpose to the Enterprise team.

Cons

Grubhub is becoming more bureaucratic and dysfunctional every day. Grubhub as the whole is a very top-down chain of command company. While I assume this can work for some companies that have a clear vision, it doesn't for Grubhub. Most of the higher management + product team tries to catch up with our competitors instead of coming up with new ideas and because of that initiatives can be half baked and not researched. At the same time big ideas from the engineering teams usually die by a thousand cuts of bureaucracy since they need to convince a lot of people before the idea even reaches out to higher ups. This bureaucracy is worsened by the number of people that are in "management" or decision making positions while none of them have any willpower or sometimes real power to actually make any decisions. In addition, as I have been here longer I realized that it is very hard for people to advance in their career. A lot of times politics are more important factor vs. competence. Since I have been here, most of the management stayed the same while some of them are good managers, there are some that are not. I have noticed that not so great managers are usually the ones that use office politics more and more to gain more power and push aside competition in their ranks or even other managers. That being said, the company recently introduced a leveling guide that on paper, should allow career advancement. However, execution on that is remained to be seen. The last thing that can be improved is company's HR practices. Year end reviews and compensation adjustment timelines doesn't make sense . Compensation adjustments happens before year end reviews. Because of that it doesn't matter if you feel like that the year end review was unjust or even as the result of the conversation during your year end review your manager changes his/her mind about you. By that point, things are mostly set and it is too late to change anything. It would also be good to be able to review your manager. There is also a lot of talk about "inclusion" but in reality, it just translates to some corporate HR video about it and nothing else in practice (given even that is better than nothing).

Pros

Great work-life balance, no need to work more than 4 hours per week. Amazing commission structure with ability to earn 100k+ in your first year (don't let 32k base scare you away). I'd say most reps in the top 50% are making over 100k. Spend your days prospecting restaurants in your zip code territories. Can reach them through phone, social media, or email to sell them on Grubhub

Cons

poor driver network in many markets which can make it a difficult product to sell. Most people have tried GH at this point and many people have bad experiences. Saturated market

Pros

Good salary, good work life balance

Cons

Competitive and crowded sales landscape

Pros

Work-life balance Stable infrastructure Good compensation Supportive environment Collaboration

Cons

Limited career growth Not many interesting problems to work on

Pros

Create your own schedule, See new places, Easy/Simple job Work-life balance

Cons

Please see advice to management

Pros

good work-life balance weekly perks for Grubhub food

Cons

high turn-over rate, many people leave