Strong product, toxic culture - Full Stack Engineer Judge.me Employee Review

The product is popular and well regarded with a wide reach, so if you work in the industry it could look good on your CV to be part of this journey. Strong strategic vision, but entirely owned and controlled by the founder, so only work here if you are an executor.

Despite clear strategy day to day direction and initiatives change based on the most recent podcast the founder listened to/tweet he read. There is no space for opinions or suggestions from inside the business, and employees cycle out of the business as they realise this. No trust in the workplace, just constant micro-management. A culture of 'you're only as good as your last mistake' makes this an unpleasant environment to work in where the senior people in the business care more about pleasing the founder and finding fault in others than doing a good job. Pay is ok, no process for reviewing it, so pray you have a good manager, and the company over-relies on other measures, such as Visa sponsorship, to keep the workforce in place. The sad thing is this is a feature not a bug of the management style.

Good product, events, marketing Hybrid Working Good benefits offering

No room for opinion. Office is devoid of culture. No sense of job security. Leadership team cycles through it's members as the Founder's opinion turns against them. Every day felt like walking on eggshells, with managers more often focused on temporarily saving their own skin than actually improving how things work. Different teams were told to improve performance despite repeated explanations about what was blocking progress. These explanations were often ignored entirely as they didn't fit the narrative at the time. There is evidence of this behavior in how the company responds to criticism, where former employees are blamed for business shortcomings despite the core issues remaining unchanged. Contractors are held to the same standards of full-time staff, with no stability, no regard for their mental health, and contradictory expectations about motivation and compensation. Company culture feels like an after-thought, with a belief that bonuses = happiness. The UK team has hybrid working, but strict requirements about office attendance, and no flexibility for people who might struggle to get in for a specific time. Negative feedback like this is seen as a branding problem rather than a sign that something needs to change.