Redis Reviews

4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

(262 total reviews)
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Rowan Trollope

91% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Redis has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 262 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Redis 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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262 reviews
2.0
20 Sept 2019

Stay away from marketing

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Pros

Open source Redis is a very popular product, developers love it. It's one of the fastest database. The company has raised over 100M in funding. It has a good potential. It has a good name in the industry. In fact, Google Cloud Platform had invited CEO of Redis Labs at their conference during the keynote.

Cons

Redis Labs recently hired a new CMO. He has created the worst toxic culture a company or department can have. He shouts at his employees, he is rude, belligerent and unpredictable. There has been massive attrition in the marketing department. The morale of the team is extremely low. There are folks crying in the office. I am not sure how much he was vetted since he is famous for pulling off sexist marketing campaigns in his previous job as a CMO.

3.0
5 Sept 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Work level employees (Developers, dev ops, SREs, customer success) are in the highest professional level from all workplaces I have seen. Sexy product, well established in the market. CTO definitely knows what he is doing. HR team do a good job. Nice office atmosphere, before and during COVID-19. Office manager Asia is a jewel.

Cons

In April, management decided to cut 10% of R&D employees' salary (C-level managers got 15% cut), not to be discussed again before Feb 2021. Since that silly move, some very talented people left, including 2 VPs(!). Considering the company has well enough cash, and it is not a custom to get an annual bonus for all employees, it is quite a brutal act. Continuous integration is written in slides (Testing-Testing-Testing!!!) but managers simply do not encourage it, nor back developers who apply it. Do it on your own time & risk. As far as company values goes, management endorses hard work into the night for fixing production issues. Prevention of problems is not acknowledged.

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Redis Response
5y
At Redis Labs, we have a unique culture built by employees all around the world. We take pride and encourage open, honest, and collaborative communication. Thank you for taking the time to provide us your feedback. From a company standpoint, we have a fiduciary responsibility to our customers, employees, and shareholders. Our employees are our biggest assets and are also shareholders vested in the company's success. As such we look for people who want to be part of building something great and help make it successful. COVID-19 crisis presented great challenges and uncertainty. During these times, similar to many other companies, we reacted fast, reduced our budget, and implemented flexible policies to ensure a healthy runway for the company. In the R&D team, we prioritized protecting jobs to upkeep morale and safeguard the long term ability of the team to meet the company’s objectives, so we made the tough decision to temporarily reduce salaries by 10%. Once the situation improved quicker than originally anticipated, we reverted the salary reduction by 5%. Post the recent funding round, we not only canceled the salary reduction but also retroactively paid the salary cut for a month back. On a side note, the 2 VPs that left the company during this period were not from the R&D team and their salary was not impacted by this action. All in all we believe we acted in a responsible and fair manner for the sake of the company and our employees. We have done a great deal of improvements in continuous integration but there is certainly always more work and improvements that can be done, saying it is not being worked on is far from reality, and we’re sorry that you feel this way. We manage very sensitive production workloads for our customers, and their success is one of our utmost high priorities. Reality is that when there is a production event we are all expected to fix them ASAP even if it is in the middle of the night because our customers depend upon us to do so. As a result we recognize people for going above and beyond when they do so. In short, thank you for your feedback. While we much appreciate it and can always learn and improve, this is not the feedback we’re getting from dozens of other R&D members.
2.0
18 Dec 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Working with smart and friendly people - Working on a great product

Cons

- Management isn't honest: you interview for one job but end up doing another - Management will expect you to work long hours and weekends quite often - Need to maintain terribly written code. It's amazing the product even works with such below-par code (actually, many times it doesn't).

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Redis Response
9y
We appreciate your feedback. Being honest is one of our core competencies, we invest in reflecting the information to all our employees. We are first and foremost committed to our clients and the great product as you described it. At times, this requires changes of priorities which might mean change of developer’s activities. Even in a great product like ours, there are still technical debt which we are investing substantial resources in improving, the next version coming out is a result of this investment. As a father to two children, I’m highly committed to create a good stress-reduced environment and supports work-like balance. We provide the best equipment to our developers and enable them to take the work home, we provide flexibility on doing a day from home when possible. Having said that, and as stated before, our customers count on us to provide quick solutions to problems they face. This means that we are each required to give extra to continue and provide this highly available, scalable and high performance great product. Thanks again for your feedback and I wish you best of luck in your new endeavor.
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