GoTo Staff Software Engineer reviews

3.9

33% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)
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Rich Veldran

54% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Staff Software Engineer employees have rated GoTo with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Staff Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. GoTo is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Staff Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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21 reviews
5.0
Apr 25, 2024
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Good latest tech stack Friendly atmosphere Good leadership

Cons

Nothing that I found till now.

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GoTo Response
2y
We are so glad you are enjoying your time as a GoGetter. Thanks so much for the review!
2.0
Oct 13, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- excellent WLB - First friday of every month is a self care day

Cons

LMI/GOTO since now held private gives grant as a retention bonus, which vest quarterly. When I left the organization they buy back the option giving single digit $ for every grant. I would be beware of such grant for employees hoping to en-cash big unless they become public.

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GoTo Response
3y
As a private company, we offer varying performance and retention incentives. Without knowing the specifics of your situation, it is difficult for us to address your comment. However, candidates eligible for our program can get a clear picture of these incentives during the hiring process. Thanks for your review.
1.0
May 5, 2022

Incompetent Senior Leadership

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work life balance. Benefits are mostly good. Some departments that haven't yet been traumatized by layoff waves directly are still somewhat intact, productive and innovative.

Cons

Yearly gigantic layoff rounds (with no transparency, you just discover that whole teams you are working with are suddenly gone), outsourcing to incompetent contractors, offshoring to Hungary and India (and not hiring expensive top talent there either but going for cheap labor). Below industry average compensation (used to be ok in the past but declined due to stock compensation running out after company went private). Lack of innovation and lack of investment. The worst IT policies I've ever seen anywhere. You spend tens of minutes per day going through the same tedious super slow login flow. Lots of usage of Microsoft products like SharePoint and Office. If you like working at a bank the work setup might be for you.

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GoTo Response
3y
We appreciate candid feedback from current employees, so thank you for providing yours. We’re happy to hear you enjoy the work-life balance at GoTo. Flexibility is one of our strongest attractors. Still, we're sorry you haven't had a more positive experience. Every decision we make as a company is and will be strategic. While you have experienced stability over your 9+ years at GoTo, we understand your frustrations around changes occurring over that period. But we disagree with hyperbole. Your colleagues around the world, including India and Hungary, are incredibly talented. They also deserve to be seen as top talent. Our digital workplace team works incredibly hard to optimize the employee experience and productivity. They deliver technology solutions that empower an efficient and resilient, remote-centric workforce. We always want to improve, and you’ve pointed to many places we can do that. Thank you for sharing these thoughts, and we hope you were able to provide the same candid feedback in our employee engagement survey – it’s incredibly valuable.
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