Own Company reviews

3.8

62% would recommend to a friend

(362 total reviews)

Sam Gutmann

69% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Own Company has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 362 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Own Company employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

362 reviews
1.0
Aug 22, 2022

Better Find Your OwnBackup Plan

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can think youre adding value to customers

Cons

1. Terrible "Leadership" more like VC pawns. They admit they are cogs in the wheel and know at a given notice this company would implode from the backdoor deals they have done with tech giants. 2. Culture - Toxic culture built on alcohol and mediocre sales reps who played the political game. Don't trust a word they say. 3. They will blame being an international company HQd in Israel as a reason to force people back into the office. They don't trust their employees to work hard wherever they are so they hide behind the mirage of culture and togetherness in a crappy office 4. Overall lack morales. At the end of the day its a decent product but the people in leadership and management ruin it. They just lack a moral compass and will do anything to get ahead. Its truly an insignificant offering when compared to what competitors are coming out with but leadership and managers act like there isnt any competition.

avatar
Own Company Response
3y
We are sorry to hear that you didn’t enjoy your time with OwnBackup. We work hard to foster a workplace that is inclusive, productive and transparent. That being said, we acknowledge that OwnBackup isn’t for everyone. We are a performance-driven culture, and we all work to demonstrate our values every day: Culture is as important as results; We take our work seriously, but not ourselves; We care about everything we do; We build trust through transparency; We’re always driving forward. -Alyssa Lahar, Chief People Officer
1.0
Jan 15, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Before COVID started, free beer and Friday lunches were good. Oh, and they send you Birthday cake truffles for your birthday.

Cons

Where to start... 1) WooHoo emails....you will get bombarded daily about wins and opportunities created....and instead of people replying to the people involved in the win, they email the entire company, you are stuck in a never-ending email chain of fake happiness 2) The sheer amount of meetings with no actionable items. This company loves to "share best practices" when in most cases, larger companies have had discussions about backing up their data and you simply got lucky with timing...but let's host an enablement meeting on how you got that luck..... 3) Management has no clue to connect to people nor have a sense of the pulse of their employees. At best they are a bunch of glorified dashboard readers and do not inspire any of their employees to go out and give it their all or address easily fixable problems 4) If you get the right territory, you will succeed, if you don't, you won't. Do not expect any assistance from the marketing team, as since COVID started, putting together a webinar that 20 people may attend to get a free gift card seems like a big ask. 5) The opportunity for growth is almost non-existent at best. They love to hire externally and lately have hired a ton of middle managers while chopping pay for newer sales hires. 6) They handled COVID extremely poorly, as if it did not exist. Several employees got COVID and many knew those who died from it, but their focus is getting back to the office for more fake culture. Speaking of the office, no one is wearing masks and the CEO is expanding and spending even more money on it, so while the rest of the world is turning to more work from home (from a happiness and better life balance) OwnBackup is going to force you back for some more "culture"

1.0
Jun 24, 2024

Terrible management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice office, free lunch… decent products

Cons

Lost all momentum. Inexperienced leaders. Horrible rebrand that hurt the company. No one likes to say they work at “Own company.” Managers seem to only care about protecting their seat and playing politics.

Viewing 46 - 48 of 362 Reviews

Glassdoor has 397 Own Company reviews submitted anonymously by Own Company employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Own Company is right for you.