Bolt Threads Reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(29 total reviews)

Dan Widmaier

62% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Bolt Threads has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 29 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bolt Threads employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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29 reviews
1.0
2 Apr 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free lunch on tuesday and thursdays

Cons

Management shows blatant favoritism to specific employees and allows unprofessional behavior. Workload is distributed unfairly and credit is not given to the correct employees.

2.0
23 Mar 2022

Unfair distribution of work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Recognition of high performance that becomes worthless because of the con

Cons

Ignore underperformance, expecting high performers to cover the underperformers' jobs which is frustrating

3.0
19 Mar 2022

The good, the bad and the ugly

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company used to provide valuable leadership and communication training to ALL employees. At times, work can be exciting and mentally rewarding. Active encouragement of feedback culture was very common and frequently reminded by executives. Play your cards right and you can get promoted very quickly.

Cons

For such a small company, there is huge hierarchy. There are VPs and directors which have little to no apparent contribution, and would occasionally act as obstacles to progress. Folks would go out of their way to sabotage progress if they couldn't stamp their name as the main contributor. This gets worse when collaborating outside your immediate team. The feedback culture only goes one way, feedback given from top to bottom and not both ways, rendering it ineffectual.

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