Pros
A fun, informal office culture used to be Evooq's main plus point, but that has died with the multiple rounds of layoffs in 2023.
Cons
Evooq is a former growth company that lacks clear direction and faces an uncertain future. No bonuses were paid out in 2023. There have been several rounds of layoffs between 2022 and 2023, often carried out arbitrarily and always with the bare minimum notice period allowed by the law. The staff turnover exceeds 30% and more than half of current employees have been with the company for 12 months or less. Management is highly concentrated: all decisions are taken by 6-7 people, while the remaining 200+ have nothing to say, The company's strategy and priorities keep changing all the time, without ever settling on a clear direction. A forum that allowed staff to ask anonymous questions to management in 2022 was closed down as soon as the questions became too awkward to answer. Unsurprisingly, morale is low. Many employees have given up coming to the office at all, in spite of increasingly desperate attempts by the company to force people to show up. On some days in the summer of 2023, less than 10% of desks were occupied. Evooq used to promise flexibility and frequent parties as a trade-off for low salaries and lack of transparency about its financial health, but now that staff events have been cancelled, while salaries and transparency haven’t improved, employees are getting the worst of both worlds.
