Auctane reviews

3.0

41% would recommend to a friend

(201 total reviews)
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Albert Ko

52% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Auctane has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 201 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Auctane employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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201 reviews
2.0
Aug 20, 2025

Destroyed by PE

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- reasonable comp in Spain, but it's starting to lag behind - remote work (in Spain only)

Cons

- terrible C level management. They're totally out of touch with the rest of the company. - The CEO makes jokes or insentitive comments at the same time they're announcing layoffs of hundreds of employees at the all hands meetings. - CTO is nowhere to be seen while we're having terrible technical problems caused by them. Rude too. Organizes an AMA and refuses to answer a bunch of questions and says "he owes himself to the shareholders and nobody else". His only guide is "automate everything with AI". - layoffs every six months - company guided by private equity trying to squeeze the company to sell it quickly, but destroying the future of the company meanwhile - more and more unpaid extra work each time they fire people, haven't left the office on time for three weeks. - they're not honoring the "options" (they're not options, just funny money, but they pinky-promised it) they promised us. They said we'll be keeping them even if we left the company or were laid off (if it was in good terms). Nobody has kept them. - no, they're not laying off because they're losing money, it's because they probably bought the company for too much money and now they can't sell it.

1.0
Jun 27, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some nice people are still working there.

Cons

There is an aversion to making decisions for fear of being blamed for failure. A stark lack of leadership and an absence of any meaningful communication that members in the organisation can support. Shocking use of micromanagement by senior staff that permeates most parts of the hierarchy. There are examples of hypocrisy when the same micromanagement is waived for personal ideas / pet projects.

3.0
Aug 13, 2024

Used to be a great place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people on the ground doing the job, used to have a great culture when it was Metapack / stamps, morale was good and people enjoyed working there. There are some still good people left but most got made redundant or left on their own accord. Pre Thoma Bravo acquisition it was 5 stars and after the acquisition, it was a 1, so its a 3 average.

Cons

It all turned bad when Thoma Bravo acquired the company, maybe things have changed now, but after that experience I would never work for a Thoma Bravo company again. It was a poison challace for people who got promoted to replace people who got made redundant as their head was generally next on the chopping block. High-level US management after the acquisition, generally seemed inept.

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