Appster Reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(228 total reviews)

Mark McDonald & Josiah Humphrey

76% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Appster has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 228 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Appster 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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228 reviews
1.0
1 Jun 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- IT support is good.

Cons

I served 4 companies yet, First time I faced this level of things. Before 1 year this was a great company under great leader (CTO - Martin), But now it come in dump & cleaver people's hand. There are lots of problems and mindset is clear that no improvement required, here are some example to understand the cleverness & standardization of senior managements - - No written promise will be held : You will receive an oral commitments and definitely it will be failed, because they are double standers. - The good example is the increments - At the time of joining the cab (40000 PA) is apart of CTC, suddenly at the time increment it will become part of CTC and increased to (72000 PA). Then what the hell you are going to do in increment. - If you go to any senior with a non technical problem, he will explain you profit and loss. If you have a technical issues specially inside the coding, they will arrange a meeting with no result. - A tech lead is only to assign the stories and estimate according to management, you could understand how he/she will estimate if he/she knows "I don't need to do this stuff". - You might be aware about the timing, Yes it is good but what good if 90% of people are getting stretched. - There are 13 Hrs, 10-12 finance people to manage 180 people along with those(13). 3-4 highly paid training strategic persons to provide training for 30 technical who are really not interested. By this point you can understand how they are increasing the cost of projects. - Have you ever heard the 2 weeks project in this kind of company, You must listen here. I don't want to unwrap more, its quite enough for wise people. Thanks.

1.0
15 Mar 2016

Nothing but politics

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Friendly CEO's......but it ends there! They dont understand the politics in India office. If you want more salary, its simple...you resign and they will retain with higher pay. Free food and sometimes free drinks also!!!!

Cons

If anybody in India management does not like you, dont wait till they terminate you after eye-wash PIP...better to resign decently. The management is people-friendly only for few selected employees. They dont care about others. and yes, dont even think of complaining to HR. They are for colourful company......that's all

1.0
6 Dec 2015

It's a cult.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Cut your teeth on many projects. Super fast paced and lots to do all the time. Lots and lots to do. ALL the time.

Cons

Zero product design knowledge amongst the entire company. Completely run by salespeople and programmers that wouldn't know a decent app if you......... Well, you get the idea.

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Appster Response
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We value genuine feedback. However I believe this is unfair and untrue feedback. I understand you chose to go and work for a smaller competitor which may have motivated you to write this review to help win business. However in the interest of fact: - Our designers are lead by a Creative Director with 22 years experience in Melbourne, he has lead major organisations and agencies and build world-class work. - We've won multiple design awards (including a W3 award this year) for work at Appster. - We've built multiple multi-million dollar startups - We've been rated top 10 app developers in the world according to 3rd party agency review sites (including clutch, goodfirms etc) I'm sorry your time at Appster wasn't what you expected, however I think the above deserves to be corrected. - Mark McDonald, CEO Appster
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