Pulley reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(35 total reviews)

56% positive business outlook

Pulley has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 35 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pulley 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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35 reviews
5.0
Apr 3, 2024

A startup that feels like a startup

Recommend
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Pros

Impressive founders. Culture-first. Everyone around me is motivated and independently driving value for the company. A co-worker I was chatting with described it as "good chaos": there's plenty to do, lots of low hanging fruit, and you don't have to ask permission to throw something awesome and new together. Interpersonal communication has also impressed me. Co-workers at all levels are quick to apologize, push for clarity and confirm they understand what's being communicated. Transparency is the default meaning I can be as involved as I want to be: jumping into discussions completely outside my domain if I have something useful to contribute.

Cons

I have dreams about solutions to the things I'm working on. I sometimes work late at night simply because I want to get things done sooner. I order lunch and eat it while I'm working for the same reason. I wouldn't recommend Pulley to a friend looking for a cushy place to quiet-quit into their next promotion. I would recommend it to friends that want to work hard to drive significant value alongside dozens of others doing the same.

5.0
Apr 3, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The people are amazing - this is what makes it low stress. Lots of interesting problems to solve. Short lead time - your work has a quick and visible effect on the product and team.

Cons

You need to learn about equity management, but that's probably good for you.

2.0
Mar 15, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the people here are genuine, nonpolitical, welcoming, and overall just want to do a good job. The product itself has a pretty cool early growth story (albeit it doesn't do much compared to competition). Design team and product interface are really good. They pay pretty well on base salary and are fully remote. The co-founder Mark is pretty cool, passionate, genuine, and a curious tech thinker.

Cons

To say this place is chaotic would be flattery at this point. This is a place run on fear. New hires either go through 6-8 interview stages + a take home assignment while Grant Oladipo (the COO) and Yin Wu (CEO) will hire their friends with 0 interview steps. Grant (COO) and Yin Wu (CEO) have a good cop, bad cop approach. Yin Wu loves exploiting people's fear about the economy and it's apparent why no one will provide alternate ideas or challenge her. Why would anyone want to challenge her if she can fire them or eviscerate them on slack or a company wide zoom call? She prefers hiring Ivy League alums, even if their experience is lackluster compared to other candidates. If you look at former employees of Pulley, you'll see many people who were replaced after just 2-5 months, often with a new hire in that same role (most likely to be replaced soon). That tells you how good they are with hiring in the first place. They even rescind offers for little to no reason at all after people have given notice. Grant Oladipo is nice, but he is always missing or unresponsive for days or weeks at a time. These two have time for posting on LinkedIn, but don't ever respond to their own employees slack messages, emails, or team. They want us to be responsive on slack within a few minutes, but will be missing themselves for days at a time. It's clear leadership is simply looking for someone at the bottom to drive 3-5x growth somehow, because they themselves don't have many ideas outside of small incremental changes. This is one of those run of the mill, hyperpolitical, small startups.

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