CircleCI Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score9.5 out of 10

53 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

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Pros

Constant improvement: Users appreciate the continuous enhancements and additions made to CircleCI, demonstrating the company's commitment to providing a high-quality product. Many users have expressed their satisfaction with the constant improvement of CircleCI.

Responsive support: The highly responsive and helpful support provided by CircleCI is valued by users when they encounter any issues. Numerous users have praised the responsiveness and helpfulness of CircleCI's support team.

Seamless integration with GitHub: Users praise the seamless integration between CircleCI and GitHub, highlighting its reliability and efficiency in not missing any commits. Many reviewers have specifically mentioned the seamless integration between CircleCI and GitHub as one of its standout features.

CircleCI Reviews

4 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesLegal Services1Information Technology & Services2Marketing & Advertising1

Continuous integration and software engineering pipeline -- automated!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 26, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CircleCI is being used by my team as a continuous integration / continuous deployment pipeline for code and various other programmatic work. The business problems it addresses is the deployment, testing, and productionization of code supporting our main software engineering functions. Various other teams we work with also go along this pathway and use circle or other tools.

Pros

continuous integration
test driven development
continuous deployment

Cons

scope of view
better pricing model
better personalized support

Likelihood to Recommend

CircleCI is great when you have software engineering processes that you need to take out and drastically scale and test before deployment. It works with regular code structures where there's a procedural lifecycle and where there is a need to methodically test and deploy code in an automated manner so deployments no longer need to be done by hand.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Information Technology and Services company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

CircleCI is awesome

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 10, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using CircleCI to run continuous integration for both front-end and back-end components for a SaaS application. It's linked to a popular source code repository which makes integration quite easy.

Overall, the experience has been fantastic. We're a small firm, and no need for the paid plan yet. But have successfully used the tool to bootstrap for the time being. The communities are quite helpful, even for those who don't have a paid plan for premium support. Would heartily recommend to colleagues.

Pros

Git integration with popular providers. Github and Bitbucket for starters. Makes it super simple to get started.
Straightforward CI tooling. No need to spin up a CI server like Jenkins / TeamCity to get things moving.
Strong community forums. Ran into a bug once, and as I was on the free tier didn't have access to premium support. Was able to work out the issue via community support.

Cons

Bits of the caching configuration were initially a bit confusing.
Took a bit of time to get git submodules working properly. But that's to be expected as it's not a common denominator for most Git repositories.
Running local builds for diagnosing bugs can be a bit cumbersome. The docker image I recall was very much a black box, and was unclear how to interpret why I got the results I did. But again, expected. If it were not a black box, it would be trivial for other vendors to clone their functionality.

Likelihood to Recommend

For basic CI/CD, CircleCI is the way to go. Especially for smaller projects where not a tremendous amount of complexity or build time is required.

Strongly recommend for simple projects. And will likely become a paying customer when the complexity/build time is merited.

Haven't come across scenarios where its not well suited. Perhaps for very large organizations who want full control over their CI/CD environments.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Information Technology and Services company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

CI done right

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

April 10, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our Marketing firm when we started developing custom applications for our clients, we needed a robust continuous integration and delivery solution. We used Apache Jenkins for several years before we made a push towards cloud infrastructure. For that purpose we decided to use Circle CI for testing, building and packaging our code in the Github repository. It is used by our Software development department for continuous integration.

Pros

Easy configuration via the Circle.yml file
Build concurrency helps improve parallel execution of tests.
CircleCI offers seamless integration with Github, hence the code commits and merges process is very smooth.

Cons

With their new Workflow feature rolled out, we are having issues with test result statistics not being reported correctly.
Recently we have experienced some major outages with CircleCI and a few performance degradations because of the AWS infrastructure that hosts the services. They had an issue with application authentication failing with Github that resulted in several problems.

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, every software development shop needs to have an adequate tool for running automated testing. CircleCI is well built for that. It is very customizable to suit any sort of development needs.

heather collins

senior developer in Engineering at ARM Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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One of the best CI tools available

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 13, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[It is being used for] running the test suite on each commit and deploying different versions.

Pros

Really easy to set it up, supports most of the languages out of the box
Free to use with some limitations

Cons

Easier key management

Likelihood to Recommend

If you use popular languages and frameworks you definitely should give it a try – it's very easy to set it up.

Dmitry Sadovnychyi

Software Engineer in Engineering at LawInsider.com (Legal Services, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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CircleCI is awesome

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 10, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Git integration with popular providers. Github and Bitbucket for starters. Makes it super simple to get started.
Straightforward CI tooling. No need to spin up a CI server like Jenkins / TeamCity to get things moving.
Strong community forums. Ran into a bug once, and as I was on the free tier didn't have access to premium support. Was able to work out the issue via community support.

Cons

Bits of the caching configuration were initially a bit confusing.
Took a bit of time to get git submodules working properly. But that's to be expected as it's not a common denominator for most Git repositories.
Running local builds for diagnosing bugs can be a bit cumbersome. The docker image I recall was very much a black box, and was unclear how to interpret why I got the results I did. But again, expected. If it were not a black box, it would be trivial for other vendors to clone their functionality.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Information Technology and Services company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience