Vantaggi
100% the people I worked with every day. At the beginning of my time there was a culture of care for each individual and Ibotta was an amazing place to work and grow my career.
Svantaggi
I was laid off in February of this year and it hurt badly but I am finally ready to tell my story: After 7+ years of my life given to the mission of this company. After walking through change after change and dealing with multiple managers and every reorg; I still loved this company. I appreciated all that had been done for me as an individual and saw the growth to an IPO as an amazing thing. I wanted to keep growing with the company. However, after the IPO, I should have seen the writing on the wall. The senior leaders started to care less about the individual workers and more about the numbers for shareholders. The most important thing became how everything we did would affect our share price. We had seemingly new priorities every 6 months and nobody seemed to know why. On a Thursday afternoon we all received a meeting invite for a whole company update Friday morning. The CEO, Brian, told us that the company was going in a different direction and needed to shift resources and let go of some employees (keep in mind that Brian said in 2020 that he would never do another layoff because the one after COVID was so hard…..). They said “everyone affected by the layoff will be notified after this meeting.” Guess how they notified us? They shut off our access to everything including our computers entirely and then sent a notification and exit meeting invite to our personal email….. Good luck saying goodbye to any coworkers. The exit meeting was basically “Here’s cobra and a few months of severance” and “Thanks for everything,” that was it. THAT WAS IT?! I gave up over 7 years to this company. Yes I was paid well (not for the industry I found out), but I was loyal to a fault. When others were leaving after a year or 2, I stayed. I loved Ibotta and in the end Ibotta didn’t love me back.