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Shadow reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(35 total reviews)

Eric Sele

61% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.6

Diversity & inclusion

3.4

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Culture & values

2.8

Senior management

2.7

Career opportunities

Shadow has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 35 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shadow employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

35 reviews
1.0
Dec 28, 2023

I'd be surprised if they are still around in 2 years

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Free snacks - Free drinks - Free depression - Insurance is decent - Meal voucher - Office dogs are cute

Cons

- Unless you are a higher up they will underpay you - Depending on where you are located you will not be paid on time - They lure people in with lies and promises that they will never keep - Everything is France-First, if you work with any other market - good luck getting anything addressed or fixed. Unless France has an issue, it is not an issue. - Blatant favoritism - The few good people that they have not fired yet are leaving due to poor management and extreme micromanaging - Your coworkers will either be extremely hard workers or not do anything at all. No in-between - Internal communication basically doesn't exist - Management will blame you for their bad decisions - Promising promotions just to tell you "no" the next year - If you have the misfortune of having to go to the office: the AC has been broken for years and you can not open the windows in most rooms - If you don't speak French you will get excluded in basically everything, even the company Slack and company meetings - Check the Shadow Subreddit r/ShadowPC - trust me

1.0
Jul 1, 2023

Potentially the worst place I've ever worked.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are/were some people who genuinely wanted to see the company grow and support fellow employees.

Cons

Lack of communication. Lack of knowledgeable management. Too much nepotism and not enough skill or performance-related advancement. Many younger / less experienced employees are allowed free reign to do almost nothing at all. If you enjoy watching your colleagues watch Youtube or play games instead of working then this is great. Otherwise... Middle managers don't know or trust their staff and don't want to. They have no desire to help employees to develop a work-life balance. A tendency to turn a blind eye to breaking or bending the law.

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Shadow Response
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Hello, Thank you for taking the time to leave your review; we are surprised and disappointed to read that your Shadow experience was so challenging. Whilst the work-life balance in an ambitious startup can be challenging, the majority of our employees have fed back really positively on this, so it is disappointing for us to learn that you weren’t encouraged to find a rhythm that worked for you. We aim to give our employees as much freedom as possible to do their work in the way they want to, and we feel comfortable to do this as we operate a results-driven environment. This includes flexibility over working schedules and encouraging people to take some recharging time during the day if they need it, whilst remaining productive. Given that your feedback is so mismatched with the results of our engagement survey, and with the word of mouth commentary we hear at Shadow on a daily basis, we would appreciate having a conversation with you to understand your feedback in more detail. If you are open to this, please reach out to our People team to discuss your experience with us. Many thanks, Shadow People Team
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