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      3.9

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (3,161 total reviews)
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      Mike Nefkens

      86% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      HERE Technologies has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,161 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HERE Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      3K reviews
      1.0
      Jun 19, 2019

      House of Cards

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good work life balance, nice facilities, on site gym, great location

      Cons

      everything else. This has become a hollowed out and directionless company. There is constant employee turnover, morale is at an all time low, senior leaders are leaving left right and center and management has no clue, priorities change every few months, old strategy gets repackaged and re-launched as something brand new, multiple teams within the company are doing the same and redundant work, projects will be abandoned in the middle of the road. Company just announced a 3% layoff, basically it is very top heavy, whole bunch of program managers, directors, corporate folks, hundreds of marketing folks all hawking a product that we are unable to successfully deliver. Compensation is also not great. There is a big disparity between the salaries of employees doing the same work. The company has no culture, constant turnover has basically reduced my team into a handful of folks, most people are too stressed to have a friendly conversation. Seriously, not a great place, I have spoken to a couple of new hires who are regretting joining the company.

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      HERE Technologies Response
      6y
      Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, transparent and collaborative workplace for all employees so your experience is certainly not something we want. Our company transformation and strategy have been transparently shared with our employees as we navigate our aspiration to be the location technology platform of choice. This means making the tough decisions to ensure current positions and org design match where we need to focus. Making team headcount decisions that impact our employees are always the hardest. As you may know, the work with developing a new career architecture allows us to ensure parity for work and pay. We now have the ability to compare salaries with similar work and have an extensive gender pay equity analysis underway. Your candid feedback exemplifies our core values including Be True and Be Bold and we thank you for that while also encouraging you to reach out to leadership and your HR partners to further discuss how we can continue this dialogue to net a constructive path forward for all our employees.
      3.0
      May 30, 2019

      Management lost their minds - now resulting in massive turnover

      Principal software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits. Great work life-balance. Great technology (AWS Cloud --> Kubernetes). Used to have some really great, smart people but most are gone (see "cons" below)

      Cons

      Management's inability to prioritize plus their lack of trust in Engineering teams have lead to mounting technical debt that resulted in large unwieldy monoliths. Then they start complaining about why you're not delivering on time. Meantime they have 5 people working on 8 different projects concurrently - constantly switching on a daily basis and then ask why nothing is done. Even when asked for a priority list they'll tell you 20 things but 5 number one priorities! Now even long-term staff (15+ years) are leaving and entire teams are departing. All that pressure is resulting in a culture of blame - but when you have responsibility but no power - it becomes so dysfunctional.

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      HERE Technologies Response
      6y
      Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback and modeling our Be True core value. We care about all employees and the support they need. Regarding your feedback on the management priorities, we believe in transparency and have been working to provide support to our leaders to more effectively communicate back to their teams while providing the relevant context. We know it's not always perfect for a technology company in transformation - these are exciting times, but we are constantly working on how to better inform and support employees through these changes with the aim of simplifying our work.
      1.0
      Apr 5, 2020

      Late stage of "barbarians to bureaucrats" cycle

      Principal software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent pay and benefits. Interesting work and problems to solve. Great work/life balance.

      Cons

      The company has been trying for years to bring in quality management. No luck so far. On the bright side, the company is extremely top-heavy. Mind-boggling number of executives, brought in by the new CEO, coming and going at dizzying speeds, running the company into the ground. Directors and Senior Directors with 1-2 people "organizations." Managers and Senior Managers with no direct reports. Rampant imposture. New Chief Innovation Officer is the former Chief HR Officer. New Chief Data Officer is the former SVP of Strategy and IP Licensing (!?). Resources wasted on fantasy HR projects and university collaborations.

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