Good place - Engineer Varjo Employee Review

3.0
May 5, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Multinational setting (Chinese investors, Russian engineers, American clients, and a Finnish office) State-of-the-art technology Abundance of former Nokia professionals on the team

Cons

Approaching release dates can be tense due to an insufficient workforce and an overwhelming amount of tasks to complete.

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Varjo Response
3y
Dear Varjo team member, thanks for sharing your feedback. Great to hear that you consider Varjo a good place to work. We are equally proud of our multinational and -cultural working environment, with 30 different nationalities in our core team and a versatile group of leading Nordic, European, and Asian investors supporting our growth journey. Also, thank you for addressing the tension brought on by approaching release dates. While new releases tend to always require a push, for a growth company like Varjo with a core value of “aiming for the virtually impossible”, releases can sometimes feel even more demanding. We want to take good care of our team members and encourage people toward a healthy work-life balance, so your feedback is heard – and we also encourage you to discuss it directly with your team lead. Thank you for all your contributions so far and wishing you great days ahead here at Varjo.

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Great coworkers, great product, great team

Cons

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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
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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