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Transparency Ranking
Circle
top 3 scores:
Location flexibility
Hours flexibility
Role modelling
Circle
Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.
Fully-remote
Fully flexible hours
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This score gives you an insight into how transparent this company is about what it's really like to work there—from flexibility to values and more!
Based on 62 employee responses
We asked employees of Circle what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.
Benefits spotlight
What's great about Circle
Mission and vision
Disruptor
Data-driven
Soonicorn
Culture
Autonomous
Collaborative
People-first
Our company environment
Gifts and praise led
Outstanding work and contribution is mainly recognised through gifts and praise at Circle
Monetary led
Outstanding work and contribution is mainly recognised by bonuses, salary increases and generous commission at Circle
Ethnically diverse
Circle demonstrates their ethnic diversity, equity and inclusion through having a leadership team, a founder team and/or an overall workforce that represents the ethnic distribution of the population.
LGBTQ+ representation
Circle demonstrates their LGBTQ+ representation, equity and inclusion through having a leadership team, founder team and/or an overall workforce which represents the LGBTQ+ distribution in the population.
Salary Transparency
Circle are transparent with their salaries on job descriptions
Regularly benchmarked/readjusted salary
Circle regularly benchmark and readjust their salaries against the market so you know you’re always getting a fair wage
Learning and development focused
Learning and development is an important part of Circle's ethos and this is demonstrated through a range of benefits which support this
Circle jobs
Employee reviews
Circle's employees have anonymously had their say in what they think of the company
The Circle is by far the best company I worked with. People here are amazing and supportive. Love the culture, the product, and how we envision ourselves in the future.
Circle is the best job I've ever had. Amazing remote international work culture, great people, great product, great team, love the offsites!
Circle is the best company ever. Not only is the product excellent, but everyone behind it is incredible. The product and our daily work reflect the company's values, culture, and mission, and we have the flexibility and autonomy to own our routines. Working here was a gift, and I could not be prouder and happier to be here.
Working at Circle
Company employees
Funding levels
Hiring Countries
Global
Awards & Achievements
Most flexible companies
Flexa100 2024
Capterra, Community Software - Best Value
2023
Capterra, Community Software - Best Ease of Use
2023About us
Backstory
Circle was founded by Sid Yadav (CEO), Rudy Santino, and Andrew Guttormsen in late 2019.
Circle's founders are ex-Teachable ($250m exit in March 2020) and ex-Gumroad — two notable platforms that have helped its creators generate over $1 billion in revenue. Sid and Andrew were on the founding team at Teachable, and helped it scale to over $30m ARR.
We've raised ~$30m from investors like Tiger Global, Notation Capital, Box Group, Harry Stebbings, Todd Goldberg, Scott Belsky (CPO, Adobe), Jason Warner (CTO, Github), Dharmesh Shah (CTO Hubspot), Soleio, and the founders/CEOs of Zapier, Superhuman, Teachable, Gumroad, ConvertKit, Morning Brew, Rent the Runway, Codecademy, Front, Framer, and ProductHunt.
Flexible working at Circle
Circle is a team of around 120 (and growing!) based in countries all over the world, but we meet twice per year (optional attendance) for company retreats in the most beautiful places we can find.
Our approach to flexible working is generally async and from anywhere. However, we also take into consideration the role and needs of the team when hiring. For example, roles that are customer-facing are likely to be hired in time zones where most of our customer are. Roles that require a high level of team collaboration are more likely to be hired in similar time zones to the rest of that particular team.
Approach to diversity & inclusion
As a fully-remote international company, diversity is baked into our DNA. Here’s how our CEO, Sid Yadav, frames our hiring mission: “Let’s find talent in underserved and under-represented corners of the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, change their life.” To achieve this hiring mission, we offer competitive U.S. benchmarked compensation no matter where someone’s located in the world, and we proactively seek candidates who expand representation of backgrounds, cultures and lived experiences in our teams.
What do we think of Circle?
Circle's incredible FlexScore is a credit to what a wonderfully flexible environment they have built. It has been a joy to work with the Circle team during this process and to have the opportunity to understand how flexible they are and how many amazing benefits they offer and just how much their employees value working for them!
Meet who might be hiring you
Hi! I'm Andy, a Talent Acquisition Partner with Circle.
One of the most common questions I get asked by candidates is "Why did you decide to work at Circle?"
My answer is always around how our leaders are carrying this company forward. They decided early on to not get swept up in multiple rounds of funding, and a 'growth at all cost' mentality. Instead, they aimed to create a more stable place to work that moves forward with intention, values steady long-term growth, and ultimately stands on its own two feet. This has been incredibly refreshing in an otherwise volatile tech market, and it's why I feel fortunate to get to work here.
Awards & Achievements
Most flexible companies
Flexa100 2024Capterra, Community Software - Best Value
2023Capterra, Community Software - Best Ease of Use
2023Behind the scenes at Circle
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