Jobber Reviews

You will be significantly underpaid, and not in a way that's cute-because-we're-a-scrappy-startup anymore. Your managers will either do what they can to help you, or do what they can to help themselves, and neither of those will be enough, because Jobber is a sales organization, not a product company, and this is reflected in nearly every decision that is made. Not that you will necessarily know, because upper management & executives will happily make decisions that undermine or overrule other employees with no notice or explanation. Jobber cares much more about winning "best place to work" awards than it does about actually making it a good place to work (see the first point above), and is absolutely 100% committed to being politically and socially "neutral". Maybe ignoring the world around you is good for business, but it sure makes people who work for you feel like they don't matter. If you learn to keep your mouth shut about it you will do fine.

- Be prepared to be a token if you're a minority. Anytime someone even alludes to the white/maleness of leadership, they will point to the one or two successful non-white/male people who are higher up as proof Jobber isn't biased. But you suspiciously never hear from those same people unless its for them to say how great Jobber is. They are doing interesting things, but somehow never get showcased. - Company-led bias training is only mandatory for managers. It was opened for everyone else as an optional lunch and learn, so I went. Their stance for microaggressions and bias was that the minority person is directly responsible for educating the people doing the bias or saying microaggresions. And to make sure you give your direct feedback to the aggressor in a calm, way that is mindful of their feelings, because being told they're acting biased is a really hard thing for people to hear, and they probably just meant to be nice anyways. They lean really hard into the idea of 'assume positive intent', and trying to tell them good intentions can lead to harm anyways falls completely flat. Company policies are clearly written in an us vs them way, where minorities are the them. - There's a lot of brand new managers, or managers who only ever worked at Jobber, so they don't seem to understand there's different ways of doing things. They're insecure so avoid giving them real feedback, even though they say they want it. Promotion is a popularity contest, so make sure the right men like you. It's the ones who've been there longer than 5 years and everyone talks about like they're gods. It's hard to miss.