Toxic Culture - Mindless bureaucracy - Inept Leadership - Anonymous employee Revolut Employee Review

Culture at Revolut is shockingly bad. The toxicity from the old guard spreads around the business like a virus contaminating each and every new employee who walks through the door. Most employees appear stressed and under significant pressure. Fear is used as a motivator. Teams are regularly torn apart in department wide meetings with nonsensical comments from leadership with less experience and knowledge than the people they manage - each week wondering will it be me? Bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy is rife - some teams exist simply to create additional admin for the teams actually making a difference taking them away from doing valuable work with no clear reason. Yet these are the “A players” who constantly receive praise for revolutionising ways of working…there’s nothing revolutionary about creating more admin for the sake of it. Senior leadership are built in the mould of the CEO - if you don’t fit in with his way of working - you won’t be considered a success at Revolut. The aggressive values they set make for a very rigid performance evaluation structure - that aggression is visible in the majority of the departments and the KPIs reflect this. So much so that the every team only looks out for itself making collaboration a huge challenge. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of healthy competition but Revolut takes this too far.