Steady decline in culture, product, and sanity - Anonymous employee Zapproved Employee Review

1.0
Sep 16, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Great PTO - Fun coworkers - Flexible working hours - Fun company events - Lots of beer (trust me, you will need it) If you have the right manager to protect you from the disorganized chaos of other teams or departments, Zapproved is a great place to work. Office managers do what they can to try and raise office morale.

Cons

- Generally poor and seemingly inexperienced management - Unreasonable deadlines - An expectation to work late nights and weekends to compensate for management's outrageous deadlines - Leadership is shaky and quick to cast blame, point fingers, and throw employees under the bus - Hemorrhaging of employees that are smart, talented, and trusted - Toxic working culture where no one trusts their job from one day to the next - Being critically underpaid is the status quo across departments to the degree that it is a frequent bitter in-joke amongst most employees - Employee hemorrhaging has led to losses of key team leaders, meaning that temporary replacements are requesting that work is constantly being redone and meetings are held redundantly on a daily basis - Employee dissatisfaction has turned a once fun office into a bitter, exhausted, paranoid office

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Zapproved Response
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First, thank you for your review. While I am not sure how to convey how saddened I am that this has been your experience at Zapproved, I am grateful for your honesty. I seek constant improvement for Zapproved and your input is valued and necessary. 3 years is a long time in the software life. I've only been here 2 years but looking back to where we were as a company as compared to where we are today leads me to believe you likely have made a huge impact in your role. Thank you. We're a company with tremendous ambition that pushes our limits every day. I won't deny that it pushes me personally. We're scaling across virtually every facet of our operation and that is only accelerating. But I also personally, deeply believe in a sustainable, joyous workplace that honors and supports the values and priorities we hold outside of work. I believe that you should be trusted to succeed, recognized and paid fairly for it, and supported by your leadership - all things that I know we strive to uphold as a company and on my team. While I can’t know if you are a part of the engineering organization based on your post, I do know you have not had an experience that reflects the values and environment that are important for me as a leader at Zapproved. This is something I would sincerely appreciate discussing with you. I encourage you to reach out. - Moses

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