Doxel reviews

4.2

81% would recommend to a friend

(34 total reviews)

Saurabh Ladha

100% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

Doxel has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 34 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Doxel 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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34 reviews
1.0
Oct 8, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Business model seems to be decent.

Cons

Joining this startup is the most regrettable decision I made in my life. I was the first batch of engineers joined the company. Almost all the first batch of my colleagues left or laid off within 9 months which is very surprising for a small startup. Here are some reasons to avoid the company: Two of our colleagues need to take days off (the company provide unlimited PTO according to the contract). They told the CEO ten days before they taking off. The CEO just ignored it. Just one day before their PTO, the CEO sent a message to them saying that "not sure if you're taking an off on Tuesday and Wednesday as well, if you are I will be disappointed..." And because it was too late to rearrange the plan, our colleagues still need to take off. One of them are fired that day. Ironically, the day before he was fired was his birthday and we cellerbrated his bday and the CEO gave him a card. For development perspective, the founders can barely do anything about development. They expect the engineers to solve everything even that is impossible. If the engineer cannot do that they would give the engineer a "feedback" session to blame the engineer. Also every his task will be delayed and eventually that task will be sent to one of us. And if we delayed the task they will give you a feedback session. There are many other examples to show how bad the company is. Just avoid this company.

1.0
Nov 17, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great use case and potential market fit. The founders are passionate about the company.

Cons

Here are the problems I had in the company and they could be common in other early-age startups as well. So always be adviced when joining an early-age startup. 1. Both the CEO and CTO are not from a technical background. I found this to be a big problem because they didn't have the experience and knowledge to manage the software development. The development since became inconsistent, it can be changed by one customer asked for one feature or they read one paper somewhere. And every some time we seem to revisit the task we had previously. Because they are very little involved in the development, their ways of judging engineers' performance became mostly checking for hours, and their way of helping you improve became pushing you stay longer hours in the office. 2. It is true that the first batch of engineers all left/got laid off by the company. And they got laid off without any notice beforehand. It's bad because the people who got laid off usually work under a certain immigration visa. Becoming unemployed will be a big trouble for them to retain status. And there's no work transition so those who stay have to figure out code written by others themselves. 3. They do share sales pipeline with engineers. But they've been overcommiting to both customers and engineers. Therefore engineers wouldn't trust how well the sales goes when the customers want something we cannot deliver.

1.0
Mar 15, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Small office that fits everyone inside. Sharing tables is always fun!

Cons

• Leadership has no experience in product, making it difficult to help them connect the dots •Required to be in office but nobody is there •Many people leave •Toxic culture • Product managers take others work credit as there own “that was my idea” • Sketchy

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