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RootMetrics

Acquired by Ookla

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The engineering side of the house is a bit of a disorganized mess. Very siloed teams with little co-ordination. - Anonymous employee RootMetrics Employee Review

2.0
5 Jan 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. If you like coffee, there are plenty of choices. 2. Management is generally laid-back.

Cons

1. Combining vacation and sick days into one PTO bucket means people are constantly coming to work sick. You'll catch whatever goes around, guaranteed. 2. Turnover seems pretty high in the software groups. 3. In the software groups you'll hear a lot of Agile methodology buzzwords, but it's really just disorganized waterfall-ish. "Sprints" can span months, for example. 4. Management may be laid-back, but also pretty standoffish by hiding in offices and rarely interacting with the people that report to them, let alone people on teams they don't manage. For example, after well over a year my skip level manager has never spoken to me about anything work-related, not even a "how's it going on your team?" 5. Unusually noisy open office environment. If you need to actually think about what you're doing, good luck. 6. Yeah, we have a parking problem, but putting together a telecommuting policy is too much trouble.

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5.0
26 Sept 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The team I worked for was great. There was mutual respect and encouragement, which helped keep moral high when work got very challenging.

Cons

At times, it required long hours in the office to get especially lengthy reports finished and out the door.

5.0
8 Jun 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

RootMetrics is a fun, motivating company to work for. The consumer-advocacy based scoring of mobile network quality is backed by a solid methodology and top-notch technical staff. The Engineering team is making excellent use of AWS and open-source software in building out a robust, scalable data pipeline. The wide range of open source solutions in use at the company, along with the excellent engineers, makes RootMetrics a great place for career growth. The various groups at RootMetrics (Engineering, Product, Sales) all have very sharp and focused employees. Folks at the company share a fundamental passion for data quality that guides both day-to-day activities as well as longer-term planning.

Cons

There are some important current pipeline processes that can benefit from streamlining/automation. That being said, leadership is aware and is driving well for the required updates sooner rather than later.

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