Spiceworks Reviews
Updated 21 Jan 2020
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Steve Horowitz
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Pros
"When going through the interview process a lot of promises were made around the company culture, the autonomous nature of the role etc" (in 15 reviews)
"Casual dress code, approachable team members, free food" (in 12 reviews)
Cons
"It’s a mid-size company that has experienced some growing pains over the past few years" (in 12 reviews)
"Company either can't or doesn't want to invest in developers in Austin" (in 10 reviews)
"Good Company"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Spiceworks full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Great company, great pay, and fun place to work.
Cons
Slow to develop product and scale
Spiceworks2020-01-21"Start up"
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I worked at Spiceworks full-time for more than a year
Pros
Start up feeling, Good work-life balance
Cons
Too much attention on sales positions
Spiceworks2020-01-06- Helpful (5)
"Great people, bad management"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Spiceworks full-time for less than a year
Pros
- Good work/life balance - Smart, talented workers - Opportunities to make projects fun and creative - Support and trust from middle management
Cons
- Confused overall business strategy to the point where even executives can't tell you what exactly the company really does or how it makes money - Frequent mass layoffs - Highly political - Roles actively being exported to India - Dishonest positioning about state of company upon hire
Continue readingSpiceworks2019-10-04 "Great place!"
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No Opinion of CEOI have been working at Spiceworks full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
The people are amazing to work with.
Cons
Lots of change happening, that is taking away from the work.
Spiceworks2019-09-17- Helpful (8)
"Sinking ship"
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Pros
The people. That's about it.
Cons
Everything else. Well I guess you can consider snacks a pro but they are seriously lacking there too.
Continue readingSpiceworks2019-08-16 - Helpful (3)
"Alright"
StarStarStarStarStarDoesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Spiceworks full-time for more than a year
Pros
Good benefits and okay culture
Cons
There is no clear company direction
Spiceworks2019-08-03 "Nice"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Spiceworks full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Best salary in industry.nice environment
Cons
Management, slow process for appraisals
Spiceworks2019-05-01- Helpful (7)
"Used to be a great place"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Spiceworks full-time for more than a year
Pros
-Good people -Products that help I.T. pros do their job. -Decent benefits.
Cons
-Lack of direction. -Applications that customers depend on are becoming neglected and outdated. -Bleeding employees. A whole lot of turnover in development. The engineering department is a shadow of its former self. -Company either can't or doesn't want to invest in developers in Austin. Now opening an engineering office in India. -Terrible commute on 360 -Below average pay
Spiceworks2019-01-03Agree with you on the great people & helping IT pros do their jobs -- which is to keep millions of organizations worldwide up-and-running and moving forward with new technology every day. However, I'd like to address your concerns re: direction and turnover. For over 6 months in our bi-weekly company town halls, at Spiceworld, and in the community we've discussed our direction, vision and 3 pillar strategy on building connections in the IT marketplace. It is true that direction is increasingly less dependent on on-premise applications which is consistent with how the IT world has evolved over the past 13 years we've been around. With regards to turnover, the facts are that 3 years ago we had a much bigger engineering dept. Unfortunately many of the projects folks were working on weren't used by many people and weren't tied to our business model. We also had to evolve and change many of the skills we had on the team. I'm very proud of the scale and impact of what the team is now accomplishing. We are hiring engineers in Austin and in fact just recently announced a new head of engineering (former employee who returned to be part of what we're building). The India Development Center is an exciting addition to the company to help us tap a global talent pool - and to think and build products globally which is in line with the fact that we serve the global IT marketplace. And I agree - traffic in Austin is getting worse. I'm glad TxDoT has a good plan to evolve 360.
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"Culture shines through as company evolves"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Spiceworks full-time for more than 8 years
Pros
The recent unveiling of the three year plan and the vision for the company in the future is compelling. Spiceworks adds value for IT Pros and the Vendors they connect with. This enables their businesses to move forward on their goals.
Cons
Some growing pains as the company transitions and aligns with the new vision.
Continue readingSpiceworks2018-11-06 - Helpful (10)
"No clear company direction or focus"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Spiceworks full-time
Pros
- Solid coworkers - Solid benefits
Cons
- It is hard to get things done when the CEO wants to micro manage every aspect of the business. - Lack of employee investment by the company, and career development here is non-existent - Without clear direction or focus on updating product technology, the company continues to fail users and customers while ultimately missing target sales numbers.
Continue readingSpiceworks2018-10-09Spiceworks Response
October 16, 2018 – CEO & Co-founder
I'm disappointed to hear that but thanks for the feedback. Without knowing which team you were on it's hard to address each point specifically. I'm not sure what micromanagement you are referring to -- over the past year we have empowered our revenue and product teams through their operations meetings which I haven't attended for months. It's exciting to see both of those teams grow. We've acknowledged we were historically weak re employee development and the new and expanded HR team has invested a lot of time there. We've delivered Agile training to engineering and we've invested in management training across the Revenue team. We've spent several company meetings articulating our strategy and we recently shared that with the world -- at Spiceworld. It was very well received by over 2,000 attendees and many, many IT pros stopped me in the halls and at the party telling me how they couldn't do their jobs without Spiceworks. This happened with many other Spiceworkers. That coupled with our helping millions of IT pros globally every month makes it difficult for me to see how we are "failing" users and customers. We've invested a lot of time and effort over the past couple of years in transforming the company including bringing in leaders who have driven meaningful change in many organizations. I'm fully confident we'll continue to do so and get Spiceworks back on the best places to work lists.
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March 13, 2019 – CEO & Co-founder