Italic Reviews

4.0

72% would recommend to a friend

(63 total reviews)
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Jeremy Cai

72% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Italic has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 63 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Italic employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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63 reviews
5.0
2 Feb 2022

Great place to work!

Recommend
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Pros

1. Work-life balance is good as an SWE. In the past 1.5 years, I have only been asked to push for something once or twice - asked, not forced. No pings on weekends or holidays. They respect your personal time. 2. People are great. Smart, passionate, and mannered. Managers are very supportive and understanding. 3. Your higher-ups trust you to do your job, no micromanagement. No forced timings or hours. 4. Transparency in how the company operates and how all the departments are doing. Helps you learn more about the business and feel connected. Feedback is actively encouraged. 5. Good amount of learning as it's a startup. Hardly any boring days. Overall, good job satisfaction!

Cons

1. There is a lot happening on any given day. Lots of org changes recently. Sometimes hard to keep up. Nothing unexpected since this is a high-growth startup. 2. There has been some employee churn which is bound to make other employees uncomfortable. 3. Compensation is decent, but nothing to write home about. Hardly any benefits as a remote employee.

1.0
18 Jun 2022

FAKE and TOXIC Culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

work from home, flexible working hours

Cons

- People can never have any job security over there. They can suddenly promote a bunch of people and laid off a bunch of people WITHOUT any quantifiable performance review. It's simply based on CEO or leadership's subjective view. - CEO will come to any manager and how's someone (on your team) doing, and he makes judgement on that. The performance review is a joke thing, the people management decision is purely subjective. - Someone from senior leadership tends to be very nice to you, doesn't give you feedback and then stab you in the back. - Leadership doesn't have strategy, very little experience with ecommerce. - Don't trust all the 5 starts review. They forced people to write it after 3 months you joined.

3.0
24 Jan 2022

It's been a bumpy ride

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- I work with some really awesome people who are here because they believe in the company, regardless of what happens. - We all have a direct impact from day 1. Come here if you want to help steer the ship. Lots of opportunities to test, improve, and help build. - Really cool market positioning... if we figure out how to breakthrough.

Cons

- Executive leadership (specifically CEO) can improve how they interact and communicate with the company. Others have mentioned this, I won't reiterate. - As other reviewers have said, firings. Sometimes one person is fired, other times groups of people. Lately, 10 people were let go on a single day. These were some amazing members of our team. This hurts morale and makes the job feel insecure. I feel like I have to constantly prove why I deserve to have a job, and feel like I can't fully trust the narrative senior leadership presents about why people are let go. - Constant changes to the business, making it feel like we're running around in circles. - Compensation and benefits are not up to par with the market. - Other startup growing pains.

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