Wire Reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)

Benjamin Schilz

100% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Wire has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wire 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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31 reviews
1.0
2 Jun 2021

A Start-Up That Doesn't Know How to Start

Recommend
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Pros

Some really smart people to work with. Security aspect in product is great.

Cons

So much to say here. Wire doesn't know what is working and what isn't. In the process of them figuring it out, they point the finger and blame their employees without any sort of direction. Leadership is in no way transparent. You hear changes, even if its positive through word of mouth. There is no alignment cross-functionally. They will make you rip your teeth out just to get the right tools and processes in place which as a result means its a slow moving ship (in no way a rocket ship). They find ways to cut corners and not pay their sales people the commission they deserve. Wire will leave you mentally unhealthy with nothing positive to walk away from. Toxic work environment where everything is delegated. VP of Sales wants no part in anything so that when everything goes wrong he can direct the blame elsewhere. Leadership is not customer centric so they get a lot of customers that churn because they can't deliver on their promises. Wire will most likely never figure out how to be successful as long as they continue to make their employees fight a lot of internal battles instead of being customer centric. Product doesn't even work well and has lots of bugs so when you try to demo it for customers it is very embarrassing.

1.0
21 Jun 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- It has a ping-pong table - Middle management is very driven to make something out of this company

Cons

Most toxic company culture I have ever witnessed. Here are some examples: - Founder being bullied out of his own company. - Board members writing childish complaints into official announcement channels and trying to reclaim company dominance by hiring puppets to destroy company culture - Banning anonymous company feedback (it's a secure messaging app) - Offering shady termination contracts to former employees who then sought legal advice (and won) - Overworking current engineers while cutting their holidays, and raising our taxes - Never getting a raise because it's "not the right time' - Dishonest communication from C level - Fake Hybrid, no incentives at all.

5.0
5 Nov 2019
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

- amazing product (security and privacy focus) - huge market demand across the enterprise and government - awesome penthouse/loft office in the Hackesche Höfe in Berlin - very friendly and welcoming atmosphere - challenging working environment to deliver an outstanding product roadmap and delivering a market fit

Cons

- ready to scale product needs to be developed first - sales cycle with customers a longer due to high feature requests

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Wire Response
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Dear colleague, Thank you for your review and your thoughtful feedback. While we certainly have things to work on, we're so glad you've sensed Wire's collaborative work environment and our friendly atmosphere. You're absolutely right: when it comes to building a scalable organization that includes all functional areas of the company we have some room to grow. We'll share all updates in our weekly team meeting and we look forward to hearing how you feel about the progress in this area. Thank you again for leaving this review.
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