Great technology, but exploitative personnel management. - Senior Software Architect Varjo Employee Review

2.0
Apr 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Interesting technology and top notch products.

Cons

Incredibly exploitative and disloyal to personnel.

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Varjo Response
5y
Thank you for the feedback! While we agree that our technology and products are top-notch, we are very sorry to hear about your feelings. Like thousands of other technology companies worldwide, we were forced to scale down our operations during the COVID outburst in spring 2020. Even though we turned every stone together with our staff, we weren’t able to avoid personnel cuts entirely. We were incredibly sorry to have to say goodbye to some of our skilled colleagues, and the interpretation of using COVID as an excuse is simply not true. Since then, Varjo has been on a steady financial growth curve, and some of our talents have in fact re-joined the company. We hope you have already found your next career challenge too. We want to wish you all the best for your path forward, both in this analogue world of ours as well as in any future realities.

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Varjo Response
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Dear former colleague, thank you for sharing your feedback. We're very sorry to hear that your experience at Varjo wasn’t what it should have been and that you felt unsupported by your management. That’s not the kind of workplace we want to be. While we can’t change the past, we take this seriously and are always working to improve. We appreciate your time with us and wish you the best in whatever comes next. - The Varjo Team
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