Terminal Reviews

4.6

94% would recommend to a friend

(62 total reviews)

Dylan Serota

100% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Terminal has an employee rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 62 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Terminal 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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62 reviews
4.0
9 Feb 2023

Overall a good company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. Terminal trusts their employees. You will have a ton of autonomy to create the perfect work-life balance. If you need to take a mid-day appointment, this will never be turned down and often times if you can slip out quickly, you don't even need to mention it at all. They trust their employees to work hard and do not monitor your activity. 2. With tech comes lots of perks. Uber Eats, wellness stipend, phone and wifi allowance. 3. Great leadership team. You can tell they are working hard.

Cons

1. Job security - there have been a few layoffs 2. Culture is just okay. Being completely remote, they do online events sometimes but they are few and far between and not much effort is put into them. There was an opportunity to travel for team bonding meetups but outside of the daily meetings, it was just a drinking fest. There weren't any activities planned. 3. Not much room for growth. During my time there, it wasn't often employees were promoted into new roles. But it did happen. Not a con but more of a comment: As someone who was affected by layoffs, I came across an article written by Terminal being promoted on LinkedIn about how to best manage layoffs. Many of the tips were not what I or my colleagues experienced during layoffs (i.e. Warn employees about layoffs before hand, conduct exit interviews, if you are a manager, reach out to those impacted). I thought it was odd they were aiming to be a thought-leader with tips they did not use themself. That being said, overall I did not feel the layoffs were mishandled.

1.0
18 Aug 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Terminal used to be great pre-pandemic, but that's far in the past now

Cons

I honestly don't see any value Terminal is adding to the partner companies or the engineers working for the partner companies. Pre-pandemic, it was great as Terminal offered an office, a good work environment people could come to work, interact with others and feel like a part of the team. Once COVID started, everything went down the hill with Terminal. Everything was handled very poorly from Terminal side, they fired lots of their employees, they canceled pretty much all the benefits and didn't even try to replace them with anything new. Overall, there is no point to work for the partner company via terminal, as they don't provide any value once the pandemic started. As things started to re-open and other companies are opening their offices, Terminal closed the majority of their offices, meaning that many of the engineers have to work remotely. I honestly don't see any point why would someone join Terminal or why existing employees/contractors would stay with them. They take a cut of your salary, so you make less money than if you would work directly with the partner company, and in return, they provide only payroll and health benefits, perhaps something that any of the partner companies can do by themselves or hire a person to help with that instead of paying a large percentage of engineer salary to Terminal. I'm honestly not sure what's the value-added anymore and I personally will be looking at ways how to get out of Terminal and work directly with the partner company and never look back.

1.0
5 Aug 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Snacks, that's all they have going on the positive side.

Cons

Disconnected leadership, lack of vision, too many junior / experience lacking leaders running the place but have no clue what they are doing. Poor internal culture, fake leaders and people. All about the show but when you pull back the curtain just a bit in ANY area, it is all smoke and mirrors.

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