Pluspunten
- cutting-edge/up to date tech stack for the best of it - strong research and speech teams, engineering too but not as empowered as they should. - sturdy positioning on the CX area + exciting investors so as to give money or give money regardless of what they do. - good systems/tools to work with - perks are ok, still have no idea of how would those play into the inexistent work life balance but that's for the next section
Minpunten
- hero culture vs ownership, of course they will say no, but be ready for extra hours, lots of them.... and you can forget recognition in case you were wandering - No DEI strategy nor willingness to even speak about it, might hurt their investors feelings perhaps? underrepresented talent continues to exit the organization, ask them about how they feel about the absolute absence training for managers and leaders without being singled out and controlled until they leave or shut up. - Micromanagement is king, be prepared to plan the plan for the plan of a plan... and to end up doing whatever Product thinks is best and don't even think on asking why. - Friendships and biases over results/resume when it comes to promotions - You want control over employees, not focused on bringing talent to develop them but rather follow and don't ask questions. - Being a non white cis male in this environment is harder than usual for this industry at ASAPP - Late fixes to comp and equity disparities, resulted in an absolute fail of inclusion on solutions beyond the US American culture. - Even as a share holder you have no insights on revenue and sales, I find this really odd. - Cascading is their communication style of preference so prepare for miscommunication and unless you are at a director/head level, hardly ever having the chance to speak to the leadership directly. For calling ourselves start up we are already really far from that concept, wondering if anyone reading also thinks we're more like an old school bank than a modern organization.