Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Technology & Digital

WEBSITE

https://www.granola.ai

About the company

Granola makes an AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings: you type notes your way, Granola transcribes quietly in the background, then rewrites your notes into a clean summary you can share or query. The company positions the product as “no meeting bots”, working across major meeting platforms and across desktop plus mobile. Recent announcements focus on team collaboration features like shared folders and Slack workflows, alongside a major funding round.

Locations and presence

Granola is built around an office-first London team (Old Street area), with most roles based in London. The company is also building a San Francisco office as a go-to-market hub, with an in-person sales hire called out as one of the first SF-based roles.

Palpable Score

56.6

/ 100

Granola treats hiring and employee benefits more seriously than many small startups, with unusually explicit perks and a “we’ll get back to you within a week” promise on applications. The score drops mainly because Granola’s open roles are mostly “founding team” and experienced profiles, and there is limited public proof of early-career progression and retention.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

6.5

/ 20

The company’s open roles are largely senior, with “founding team” framing across engineering and AI positions rather than 0–3 year routes.
Granola lists experience floors like “3+ years” for Customer Experience Engineer and “7+ years” for a San Francisco Account Executive, which closes the door on most grads.
The company does not currently publish internships, apprenticeships, or junior-titled roles on the main careers page, so early-career access looks rare.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.3

/ 20

The company’s job pages spell out day-to-day work with concrete tools and responsibilities, for example CloudWatch log work, SQL investigations, and “small code changes” in Customer Experience Engineering.
Granola states an application response expectation (“we’ll review your application and get back to you within a week”), which is a real transparency marker.
The company does not consistently publish the interview stages or assessment format on role pages, so candidates still have to discover process details midstream.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

11.8

/ 20

The company funds learning with an explicit £1,000/year L&D budget and lists it directly in multiple role pages as a standard benefit.
Granola describes unusually hands-on, cross-functional work for customer-facing technical roles, including building internal tools, debugging issues, and collaborating closely with product engineers.
The company does not publish a mentorship model, onboarding plan length, or review cadence for early-career hires, so support structure is hard to evaluate upfront.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

14.5

/ 20

The company lists a strong, specific benefits package on job pages, including fully paid parental leave (20 weeks primary, 12 weeks secondary), pension matching (up to 7%), and private health cover.
Granola’s Ashby postings include salary ranges for some roles (for example £100k–£130k for certain engineering roles), which is better than “competitive” placeholders.
The company does not publish salary ranges on every role page, so pay fairness is still unevenly transparent across functions.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

9.5

/ 20

The company has some employee-review evidence describing early impact and varied responsibility within the first few months, especially in customer-facing roles that touch product and tooling.
Granola is expanding locations and teams (London plus a new SF office push), which suggests growth, but public retention or promotion data over 12–24 months is not available.
The company’s public materials talk about fast progression, but there are not enough concrete examples of junior-to-mid promotions, leveling, or tenure patterns to score this pillar higher.