Hola reviews

4.0

72% would recommend to a friend

(112 total reviews)

53% positive business outlook

Hola has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 112 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hola employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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112 reviews
4.0
May 9, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

* Good compensation. * Developers are very skilled and clever, there are no juniors or retards. (See negative reviews for some people that were fired on this basis after, like, 2 days worth of employment — and rightfully so.) * You learn a lot of stuff on a daily basis, and get to work on wildly different tasks. * There are no long hours, and no rigid timetable to adhere to. * Can work either in-office or remotely. * There's a cook at the office, making healthy food. * Company's CEO and CTO are probably the best senior managers I've ever worked with, very intelligent and rational.

Cons

* Middle management blows... badly. This is obviously subject to change, the description is accurate as of now (2015). * They (used to) lie about the choice of hardware to work on. In practice, they pretty much dictate this aspect, and you're forced to use a fugly Thinkpad. No MacBook for you, unless you're willing to bring your own (and even then that's questionable). * There are late-night calls sometimes, when things go south. This is true for any startup, but still.

1.0
Feb 6, 2018

Don't go there!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There HR department do their best to give you great environment to work in. I had my own room, in house chef and many more benefits the salary is also great but...

Cons

If you have an opinion on anything in the world this is not the place for you. This place is a dictature. CTO and CEO are very arrogant and think they know everything they won't let you express yourself and offer alternatives to their ideas and opinions. If you like to be told what to do and treat like trash from time to time this is the place for you.

5.0
Apr 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Advantages: + interesting work + flexible hours (working remotely) + smart peers (no averages) + competitive salary + management reduced to minimum + gvim as the main IDE!!!! (loving it) + existance of coding conventions and company DNA (taken pretty seriously) There are no code reviews, so you have got to be smart, independent and responsible to think your way through very well. If there is some criticism, usually told directly in the eye. It is no place for averages nor big EGOs (unless you are just as smart as big is your EGO). Overall, a nice place with friendly peer environment, but one may say it is somewhat specific and is no fit for everyone. Hola is much like VIM, extremely powerful tool but not everyone can get it.

Cons

Disadvantages: - no code reviews (still not used to it, even though it gives many other advantages) - cvs as a main VCS (for those who are in love with power of git) - some parts of coding conventions is different from what most of JS world is using, so you have to get used to it

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