Rocket Fuel Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

The people are so sweet and the managers I’ve had are amazing! The work/life balance is a dream come true and the perks are outstanding!

Cons

It’s a shame the company wasn’t financially successful. It definitely brought morale down and being acquired isn’t exactly a “walk in the park”.

Pros

Company was sold to another company If you can participate in the free meals and office benefits, I guess that is nice

Cons

Best employees have left the company with little talent remaining Very little room for pay raises Horrible work/life balance

Pros

- Smart People - Competitive Salary - Positive Work/Life Balance

Cons

- Not every team has a great manager - 401k plan is not as competitive as other large companies

Pros

1. With tight human resources, every engineer starts to own multiple projects. 2. Majority of managements have excellent leadership. 3. Reasonable work-life balance. Except for the on-calls, the working hour/time is flexible.

Cons

1. The biggest is low salary. Except for new grads, the corresponding total package is much-much-much less than that from Google, FB, LinkedIn, etc. If RF is really an engineer oriented company, should we pay our employees honestly and decently? 2. Much more shares are given to new hires for attraction, but few if any to the current employees. Maybe our current employees shouldn't feel unfair at all because "the market has shifted"!! 3. Some people having good relationship with managements got promoted very fast, as causes a feeling of unfairness. (Senior manager? Director? Kidding me!?) Are our annual review mainly based on relationship? I knew a few hardworking employees never got promoted because they are not good at connection. 4. RF keeps losing engineers, and lots of projects don't have owners, or their owners don't have sufficient understanding yet, as causes a few system outages already, and makes our system fragile. (Robustness considers both systems and people maintaining them!!)

Pros

Great benefits/perks, nice people, healthy work life balance, great managers/smart people

Cons

Each department seems to have their own agenda so sometimes communicating between the departments is hard

Pros

Smart people, good technology, most people work hard, great work/life balance, innovative.

Cons

Senior Management has no idea what direction they want to take the company. They were constantly changing direction, messaging, C-level management, process etc. They don't think things through, just make hasty decisions and others are left to clean up. When they do make changes they do not provide context or information. Everyone just finds out through the grapevine. Majority of the C-Level management are men.