Quick-paced startup company with great potential for individual progress (if you've got what it takes) - Senior Graphics Software Engineer Varjo Employee Review

5.0
Aug 4, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

— Great technology and possibility to participate in building new pieces of tech from the ground up. — Relatively relaxed atmosphere: you can control your own pressure, but the great freedom comes with a great responsibility. — Compensation and benefits package are comparable to only very few companies in Finland. — Provides a lot of opportunity for professional and career growth.

Cons

— In the beginning of pandemic COVID has hit the company pretty hard resulting in plenty of stuff being laid off, which deteriorated the morals quite significantly. — As often happens in startups, work direction may change rather quickly and one may end up working on something that has to be done "yesterday" and not necessarily directly related to the area of competence or the formal title of the role. — The work pace is sometimes rather exhaustive (but if you've got what it takes the outcome is very rewarding)

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5.0
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Pros

Great coworkers, great product, great team

Cons

Not always the most organized

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2.0
Jan 24, 2025
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Pros

Work life balance, including managers that come in for like four hours a day. Travel is fun and the team has a good energy to it. Finland HR is wonderful.

Cons

The company isn’t doing well at all. Management all knew each other before getting hired so there’s an inappropriate bias at that upper level. Desperate to hit an unattainable quota. People leave and the position doesn’t get replaced. Micromanaging of account executives. No career path because they can’t hire or need new headcount. Managers get title changes and promotions while the rest of the team struggles to get by since they never can hit quota. All the best employees in the US and Helsinki have left.

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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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