HelloFresh reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(398 total reviews)
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Dominik S. Richter

54% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

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1.0
Mar 28, 2018

Do Better

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Pros

The snacks and food from the test kitchen are okay... and some of the people are a pleasure to work with. That’s about it.

Cons

Do not work here (especially if you’re lower level)! HelloFresh wants to pretend like they have a fun, innovative culture (maybe the international and/or non-NYC offices do), but from where I stand it’s all a facade. The only “healthy” work environments here are HR and MAYBE Finance, but if you’re not working for those teams, RUN! The stress that you’ll endure here just isn’t worth it. The majority of middle management is questionable at best in terms of leadership style and overall qualifications, and if you do luck up and get a manager that actually cares about you and your career development, chances are your department is HIGHLY inefficient and you’ll end up working overtime (for free) just to account for the lack of competency. A lot of people here are unfortunate enough to have both a terrible manager AND an inefficient team. On top of that, the company pays under market value for most of their positions so it’s REALLY not worth it. The company keeps “growing” so they continue to hire more and more employees without adequate space for them to actually work. A lot of supervisors are micromanagers and don’t want to let employees work remotely, let alone out of their sight, which results in a ridiculously overcrowded NYC office space. I’ve even seen a team with assigned “desks” at a shared 5 x 3 ft table in one of our small, humid conference rooms. Most of the meeting rooms are actually painted closets with no air flow or windows, by the way. Although HelloFresh has been public for months, the company still views itself as a “startup” and refuses to place any real policies around workplace safety and discrimination concerns, thus making everything “up to your manager’s discretion.” This is BY FAR the most toxic work environment I’ve ever been in. I’m only sharing this so that other people won’t be told a different story about working here before they start and then feel stuck like I did.

2.0
Mar 20, 2018

They trick you..watch out

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Pros

- great benefits - decent culture - some really great people work here - free snacks, coffee, and beer - great location

Cons

Unfortunately, they set you up thinking this place is going to be amazing. I was completely lied to in my interview on what I would be doing. They pay you WAY less than you should be making and there is absolutely no growth. They only grow the same people over and over off of if they like you. I worked 60-80 hour work weeks for them to just hire people above me and take the jobs I liked doing away. The office is extremely crowded and no space. They do not care if you grow in your career at all and if your skill set grows. The managers do not care to manage and just about their own career. I could go on and on and if you actually care about growth and learning in your job, do not come here.

1.0
Mar 12, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Pretty much just the benefits

Cons

It wasn't so bad when I started, but after a few weeks we had no in-house manager so the Denver manager started watching over us. He has zero management skills/experience, only cares about how well he does and doesn't want to help you or see you succeed, and literally bullies you if you aren't performing up to his standards. His so-called "training tips" are extremely subjective and gets mad if you don't pitch exactly how he tells you to. You drive nearly 30-45 minutes to each event and aren't compensated for driving (they will lie to you about this in the interview and say "it's possible"), the event coordinators have NO idea what they're doing and never schedule enough events for us or even properly coordinate with the sites and half the time the places don't even know we're coming that day. I have no idea why they're opening new offices for this brand ambassador program when half the offices don't even have managers or are established yet. There are so many growing pains and issues with this program that corporate turns its back to... Take my advice and run far FAR away from this job.

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