Pros
- Somewhat nice and talented people - Good if you are a junior and/or out of work
Kontras
- The company is located at best in the lower quartile of language learning apps - probably the oldest amongst all but the least successful - the company is continuously struggling to turn a profit and perpetually on budgets cuts causing an ambience of pressure for hitting unreachable, arbitrary targets - Salaries are below market rate across the board - You may very often being asked (or encouraged, depending on which team you are on) to work extra hours without being appropriately compensated - well reflected in one of the culture wall posts "go the extra mile” - During my time at the company there haven’t been any flexible working arrangements - WFH is highly discouraged due to typical ivory-tower mentality and micromanagement-driven approach on running the team and the business - CEO unfortunately lacks charisma and more importantly both domain and technical expertise required to run a successful tech startup in the very competitive ed-tech niche - Company growth is flat-lined which translates into impossible career growth within the business - Company is being run with a typical top-down approach but without clear long term strategy or vision, with management driving very sharp strategy changes in short periods of time in the hope for an improved bottom line - which obviously hasn’t turned out to be very successful so far