Used to be a great place to work, culture has changed dramatically - Sales Aiven Employee Review

1.0
Aug 26, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Company crab week - flew entire company out to Portugal for a week and rented a lavish resort. Great tech given to employees - new MacBook Air, latest iPhone, newest Airpods. Fully Remote work environment.

Cons

Culture has went into the toilet after mass layoffs in January 2023. Tons of micromanagement. Promoting then demoting months later only to hire external candidates to fill roles. People announcing their departure every week. Morale is at an all-time low. Management shifts directions every month or so. Not ready for Enterprise customers.

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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
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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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