Great people, but growth and culture are in decline - Marketing Remitly Employee Review

3.0
30 Apr 2025
Recommend
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Pros

-Smart, kind, and mission-driven teammates -Competitive compensation and benefits -Still meaningful work helping immigrants and families around the world

Cons

-Career growth has stalled—promotions are rare, and internal mobility is increasingly limited -Significant culture shift since new leadership—what once felt like a purpose-led startup now feels like a cold, corporate machine -Many longtime employees have been forced out without warning, creating a climate of fear and distrust. They went about it in a heartless and negative way instead of calling it layoffs which would make them look bad. Despite years of hard work and no negative feedback, they decided to burn bridges overnight. -Inefficient processes and resistance to innovation make it hard to drive change -Workloads have increased dramatically without added support or structure

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

AI Native from first principles. Colleagues are strong and collaborative; this is the most consistent positive across teams. The mission is concrete: moving cross-border money for people supporting families. It informs prioritization and trade-offs. Scope and responsibility are available early to people who take them. Compensation and benefits are great. The company has a defined strategic direction under new CEO Sebastian Gunningham and is executing against it. Exciting time to be here.

Cons

Big org changes as the company reinvent, not for everyone.

3.0
18 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company started off to be great when I joined a few years back. Lots of hands on opportunities, some great people to work with. Benefits are good, people are valued and contributions are seen.

Cons

The company really started to go downhills in 2024 when there are constant leadership changes, mission changes, priorities changes and team orgs. Business Managers are starting to act like the "decision-maker" over pretty much all product and marketing decisions. We start to question if the direction we are focusing on is even right. Is it customer-centric still or is it more business-oriented. work life balance is bad stress is high people are no longer valued, heard or seen you know a company is going in a negative direction when you start to see tenured employees to leave, smart people to leave as well.

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