Worst company I have ever worked at - Manager Aiven Employee Review

1.0
Mar 19, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

None, no pros at all

Cons

They will first trick you with equity so you can take lower salary. They don't follow their own values they invented and change often. The management and processes are not define and they just fill their time with meetings and suppress any ideas that they don't understand. They are barely surviving. Then there is this inner group that hold the political cards and if you go against them they fire you. In a short term I have been there they fired 60 people in less than a year, every month there are people gone and new people come. It's not a real company and I believe its a front for money laundering because the products are so bad.

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5.0
Jul 10, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people focused on solving hard problems associated with how data moves inside of an organization and gets consumed downstream by AI and applications. Strong new leadership team has the company moving in the right direction. Truly international company with HQ in Finland and vibrant offices in other really cool locations (Cork, Austin, London). Come here if you want to be challenged but also celebrated for your contributions.

Cons

We compete for customers against some of the largest software companies in the world, so the challenge is real. But we are winning.

2.0
Dec 5, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent salary, good international travel opportunities, interesting and kind colleagues

Cons

Executive leadership has no vision or appetite to stick to a plan. Despite hiring many people with the experience and skillset to win, leadership routinely ignores advice from within the house, over-commits to half-baked plans, assigns the wrong people to tasks, and then is unwilling to take accountability for continuously failing to deliver anything new.

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