HOVER Reviews

Hover seems like a great place to work at first. Once you peel back the onion, you realize there is a really tight group of OGs in a boys club who make almost all the decisions with seemingly endless opportunities to fail. The rest of the company is held to a more ruthless standard. Assume you’re not in the club if this isn’t obvious to you right now and you likely won’t break into this club as a new hire. To summarize in the company’s own values: Think: about how to protect yourself and never cross someone in the boys club Do: not ever speak up to hard with ideas that contradict your leader or someone who has more clout that you Serve: your leader and the business relentlessly. Avoid taking family leave for any reason. This company says it values leave but it really doesn’t in practice, especially family leave.

The design team is down to only3 or 4 people, who I rarely see, and the research team is gone, and the product managers who cared about customers are gone. I don't know why anyone stays here. I learned so much from the research director and especially liked how she worked with engineering and helped everyone. I liked working with and hearing from the design managers and head of design and designers and felt demoralized when they all left. I loved working with the product managers and engineers who showed interest in customer experience. I felt horrible when I heard and read about what has been said to women and how women have been treated. This is now company of people who are very similar. Kurt Cobain said it well "they laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at them because they're all the same."