ELM Reviews

4.2

91% would recommend to a friend

(147 total reviews)

93% positive business outlook

ELM has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 147 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there.

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147 reviews
1.0
19 Mar 2022

Do not recommend

Recommend
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Pros

The projects were amazing and diverse

Cons

The company culture is very backward and female employees are treated as less This show in every aspect including salaries and the tasks that are assigned to female employees In my experience, I did lead multiple projects and most of them were assigned to me after other colleagues failed and made the client very upset. These projects would be assigned to me and after I’ve succeeded in all of them, my name just got scratched out and I didn’t receive credit for any of them. The credit would go to any of my male team members or if there was none the project won’t be credited to anyone! I wished the company would change, but it seems the majority like the company as it is and I was just in the wrong place. Another negative thing is that most managers are incompetent and have God Syndrome. Although you can’t blame them since the HR is treating them like gods and giving them all the power over employees and their careers. For example, managers have moved employees to new jobs and industries without them knowing! The employee would be informed of this after the change has been made formal without their consent!

1.0
23 Jul 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible Hours I cannot think of anything else. Elm was probably the best company to work in Saudi Arabia. But that was like before 2012. Now, unfortunately, it's a mess.

Cons

- Managers are technically very very weak, yet they manage good technical people and enforcing their weak style of workin. 🤯 - A lot of managers are micromanaging, interrupt, and hinder the productivity of the teams. - If you think you want to join Elm to build great and high-quality products, well, this is not your place. Managers here don't care about the quality of the products. Every manager tries to impress his manager. Why? promotion. So they work to impress each other, and the client/product is the last thing they will think of. - They worship KPIs. They only work for KPIs, not the client/product. Also, if they achieve some KPI, it's not because they did a great job on a particular KPI, not at all. It's because they did it only on paper (cheating). - The development model is Waterfall. yes in 2019. They use the word Agile, but they actually don't know what it means. They think they are using Agile because they are using Jira tools (quite funny, I know)

1.0
22 Mar 2024

Good Company

Recommend
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Pros

HR people are the best team in this company Good culture, good people Policies and procedures are created very well Great work place if you are looking for stability Everybody respect others

Cons

promotions are made by relations not by qualifications A lot of delegations, a lot of responsibilities for low grade employees Lake of KPI cascading Work under stress and most of the project & programs managers are just following up freaks Most of assistant manager are doing the work for their managers/directors and they are not getting promoted, Sometime you see yourself with low grade but doing a director work because he is not smart enough to do his own work

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