Cytora reviews

4.1

72% would recommend to a friend

(41 total reviews)

Richard Hartley

88% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Cytora has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 41 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Cytora employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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41 reviews
1.0
Jan 24, 2020

Wheels are coming off

Recommend
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Pros

Intelligent employees Fairly open culture Nice serviced offices Snacks Annual trip abroad

Cons

Cytora is currently failing. They're desperately searching for 'product-market fit' which is eluding them. As such, they are continually restructuring teams, hiring people to then make them redundant months later, and working key members of staff beyond their limit (resulting in one senior team member reduced to tears in the office due to exhaustion). Other key members have recognised this and left. Machine Learning features less and less in their product roadmap, in favour of simple automation tools sold to small insurance brokers, usually on a consultancy basis. Since series B funding in early 2019 they have made no new sales deals, and have in fact lost two of their biggest pipeline deals. How long before investors pull the plug? Management have no empathy, whilst selling the vision of Cytora being the next 'unicorn'. Growth plans are grossly inflated. Stock options are worthless, and subject to continual dilution.

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Cytora Response
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Thanks for your comments. In any start-up, change is frequent and can feel disruptive but is an unavoidable part of working for a fast growing business. We have the utmost confidence in our brilliant people to continue taking the company forward.
2.0
Apr 14, 2019

Would not recommend

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Opportunity to work on many / diverse tasks - Work tackles more interesting problems (Insurance AI) than most corporate jobs - Young team, very smart people from top universities - Little bureaucracy

Cons

- Management has very PR-focused mindset (including carefully curated Glassdoor profile) at the expense of substance. This demotivates the smartest people in the company and is part of the reason the company experiences high turnover / employee drain - Ineffective team discipline resulting in project delivery inefficiencies - Negligible stock options - Overall not a killer career move, but with possibility to be a good stepping stone - Long hours relative to pay (startup typical)

2.0
Dec 2, 2024
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

The people are great and the company invests in bringing people together.

Cons

The company burns through product managers. There’s serious lack of product management leadership skill. Every day there’s a new “priority”, everything is for now or a month ago. Every suggestion is not good enough. Creating a roadmap seems to be an impossible task.

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