Just a shadow of its former self - Senior Product Manager Varjo Employee Review

2.0
Apr 5, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Regular yoga classes and a good tea selection. - Work with kind and interesting people.

Cons

- The company oversold itself and the position during the hiring process, painting an unrealistic picture of what the job and company culture were actually like. - There's no structured onboarding for new employees, leaving them feeling lost and unsupported. When asking for guidance, leaders would simply say "just talk to someone." - Product leadership is weak, with no clear direction or vision for the software side of the company. Employees have nothing to learn from the leaders, who provide little guidance or mentorship. - There's no feedback culture at the company, with managers incapable of providing any feedback or guidance to employees. - Although the company prioritizes processes over people, employees frequently arrive late to meetings, fail to attend them altogether, or disregard agendas, causing frustration and wasted time.

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Varjo Response
3y
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We are very sorry to hear about your experience and feelings of a mismatch between expectations and reality. While we’ve been putting a lot of effort into building and improving our onboarding practices, there is always room for improvement. We’ve been growing tremendously fast, and our focus has been on execution; building pioneering technologies and bringing them to market swiftly. However, this should never come at the cost of team members feeling left alone – having each other’s back is one of our core values for a reason. As said, we continuously aim to do better, so thank you for your honest feedback. We’re sorry to hear we weren’t a good match. We wish you all the best for your future career endeavors.

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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.

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Varjo Response
1y
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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