New leadership creates fear and pressure - Anonymous employee Epassi Employee Review

1.0
2 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The friendships made here will last beyond this company. Nice colleagues suffering together.

Cons

Since they replaced all the C-level executives with people from Hello Fresh (and also strategic positions with engineers from there), the company has completely changed. They fired all the old leaders and put in this American-style leadership that doesn't inspire, doesn't engage in dialogue. It's no longer the Epassi we trusted, the one we enjoyed working for. Today it's a bunch of Hello Fresh people pressuring employees for productivity, there's no dialogue, actions are top-down, the product and its viability aren't analyzed, they don't know the customers or the market, and they change everything to their own way without alignment with the engineers. There's high pressure for delivery and layoffs are starting to happen. We're afraid to ask questions and give our opinions because the new leadership doesn't encourage and isn't open to hearing criticism.

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1.0
18 May 2026
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Pros

Generous wellness benefits and a good company image, although the internal culture falls short of expectations.

Cons

* Employee feedback is collected but rarely acted on. * Leadership culture is controlling, political, and built on low trust. * Wellbeing is heavily promoted externally but not reflected internally. * Management often shows little respect for individual needs or boundaries. * Decisions are top-down with minimal transparency. * Trust is undermined by leaders speaking negatively about employees behind their backs. * Workload pressure is consistently high, leaving many employees stretched thin and reaching a point of burnout or exhaustion.

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Thank you for this feedback — it's important to us and will be shared directly with our leadership team. It will also form part of the actions we're planning in response to our recent pulse survey. We really appreciate you taking the time to share it
2.0
30 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good colleagues, flexible benefits, AI tool access

Cons

New management does not yet understand the business, pushes people too hard without inspiration. Negative comments or pushback is seemed as a threat. Most decision-making entities seem to be all male panels with people of quite similar backgrounds, which is troubling since we are making products for a diverse customer base across Europe. The tech leadership is mostly coming from Hello Fresh which can be good, bad or neutral.

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