Corporate Culture - Anonymous employee Go City Employee Review

1.0
10 Jun 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Nice office location - Close to latest tech trends - Beer o'clock - Supportive culture amongst colleagues - Only 2 days required in the office - Annual bonus

Cons

Unbecoming corporate culture for such a small company Uncompetitive employee benefits (they were improving on this though) Business was moreso retailer driven rather than customer driven - limiting growth and impacts the work making it more tedious and repetitive. Lack of support from Management: - you may be walking on eggshells - some were occasionally rude and bullying - saying the right thing in the wrong way will have repercussions - often an isolation between business and tech leading to wrong technical direction Not enough employee engagement when it comes to long term product ideas that could've been a motivating driving force - i.e: that feeling that what we do benefits the customer and makes it worth it.

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Go City Response
3y
Hello there. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your experience. All feedback is welcome and really helpful. The feedback around it being a corporate culture is super insightful. As you know we are not a highly policy driven business and we have lots of 'principles' instead and pride ourselves on not being overly corporate. We'd love to hear what you mean in more detail? There are some other parts of your review that we'd love to talk about too. If you feel comfortable to share, please pop us an email on peopleteam@gocity.com or you can chat to us via Face Up if you would prefer to remain anonymous. We hear you on the communication piece and we hope our bi-weekly stand ups and sprint reviews are going some way to ally this experience. So great to see you acknowledge the benefits evolution that is under way too. We've certainly come a long way in 2021-2022 alone. If other colleagues would like to chat to us about future benefits across the globe, we'd love to hear more.

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Hi there - thank you for taking the time to pop up some feedback. Great stuff to hear that you enjoyed the flexible nature of working and the people. On the cons, we note that you say that we have no goals and strategy etc. This year we've taken the steps to ensure that our Company OKRs were shared earlier this year at our all Company conference. We also track our progress against these goals and share that with the whole business on a regular basis. Each of those were translated in to team OKRs that were more granular. As you aren't here anymore you won't be experiencing that shift but we took the feedback on board to create clearer goals and articulate the company strategy. We are always trying to iterate how we communicate to our teams, including the frequency and the content and that will continue. We acknowledge that career growth is important to people and also encourage teammates to take some ownership of their development. We are sorry that did not translate for you in your time here.
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