Don't waste your time - Anonymous employee Taplytics Employee Review

1.0
21 Jul 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

New office is spacious. Some great people work there.

Cons

Where to start? In my personal experience and what I was witness to, leadership is very inexperienced, like a lot of startups people who co-founded the company are in positions they are severely unqualified for but act like they are leading experts and know best. To make it worse they hire people with the experience and expertise but don’t listen to their advice or suggestions, especially the CEO who seems to think he's an expert in everything and micromanages everyone. They claim they want feedback and for employees to speak up but when they do they aren’t listened to and either leave for better opportunities where their expertise and experience will be valued or they are dismissed. For a company with such a low employee count the churn is incredibly high, which says a lot. If you're a door mat and have no opinions you'll do fine and fly under the radar. As well there is almost no diversity in senior leadership. There is one female in a senior position and the rest of leadership is surprise surprise a bunch of white guys.

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Taplytics Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review about your experience at Taplytics. While each experience at Taplytics will vary, we’re disappointed to read that your time here was less than positive. At Taplytics, a core value we share is Winning as a Team and all contributing to the continued growth of the organization. Something we pride ourselves on is the exposure we are able to give our employees to all levels of management, having them directly involved in decisions that help to shape the future of the company. We strongly believe that a founder-led company provides the passion, culture and entrepreneurial spirit that’s needed to create a great technology business. We also believe that growth isn’t possible without having a strong, experienced, and supportive leadership team. Our senior leadership team consists of industry veterans who have led 100+ sized teams and helped other technology organizations scale and succeed. As it relates to employee turnover, we have only seen two employees voluntarily leave the organization in 2020. It’s our hope that employees who have moved on to new opportunities gained valuable skills at Taplytics, which helped accelerate their career development and we remain proud of their career growth and we wish them nothing but success. We openly welcome feedback with regular internal sessions (through weekly 1:1's, organization wide All-hands meetings, employee engagement surveys, and a continued open door policy with our CEO and founding team). We take all feedback seriously and consistently strive to make all Taplytics employees feel valued, heard, represented, and respected. And like we encourage our clients to iterate, we believe in iterating and improving ourselves with the feedback we receive from the incredible Taplytics team. As an employee driven effort coming out of feedback on how we can support the fight against COVID-19, our team volunteered to design, engineer and distribute Personal Protective Equipment COVID Boxes (https://www.covidbox.org) to hospitals and frontline medical works nationwide. Diversity in leadership is something we are actively working on. While we have one of the brightest female minds as our Head of Finance, we are actively working on programs and inclusion groups to ensure clear paths to management for everyone within our organization. We are proud that our Customer Success and Enterprise Sales teams are predominantly female and are comprised of some of the brightest minds in SaaS. We are in the process of building a Women at Taplytics group focused on highlighting and supporting the goals and achievements of the women within our organization. We’ve also partnered with the Women in Tech Sales Bootcamp to continue to encourage women to explore opportunities in the tech community. If you have any additional feedback to share about your experience, we encourage you to send an email to feedback@taplytics.com so we can review and address your concerns if needed. Andrew Co-Founder & COO

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1.0
20 Jul 2020
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Pros

Competitive Base Salary. Some of the staff are o.k. to work with.

Cons

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Taplytics Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review about your experience at Taplytics. While every experience will vary, we’re disappointed to read that your time at Taplytics was less than positive. While we have a strong belief that a founder led company provides the passion, culture and entrepreneurial spirit that’s needed to create a great technology company, we know it isn’t possible without having a strong, experienced and supportive senior leadership team. Our current senior leadership team consists of industry veterans who have led 100+ sized teams and helped other technology organizations succeed at scale. At the same time, we need to ensure that the senior leaders we bring into the company reflect our morals of respect, empathy, and professionalism towards our employees. These are non-negotiables for us. When anyone at the company doesn't live up to these standards, changes need to be made. We openly welcome feedback with regular internal sessions (through weekly 1:1's, organization wide All-hands meetings, employee engagement surveys, and a continued open door policy with our CEO and founding team). We take all feedback seriously and consistently strive to make all Taplytics employees feel valued, heard, represented, and respected. And like we encourage our clients to iterate, we believe in iterating and improving ourselves with the feedback we receive from the incredible Taplytics team. We’ve worked hard this year to build new internal processes centered around transparency. Now every Taplytics employee has line of sight into the current marketing and product roadmap. All our teams have the ability to add requests to the product roadmap and check the status of these requested items. We also sync weekly as a broader company in our weekly All-Hands to share key insights and updates from each department. We’ve made a lot of major strides this year, all based on feedback from our team. Finally, our values are: Honesty and Integrity; Doing Things You’re Proud Of; Winning As A Team; and Thinking Big. Every week we recognize team members that exemplify these traits in our All-Hands and teammates often share examples in the #props channel on our company Slack. While it isn’t one of our values, “Do things that don’t scale” is a hallmark of Paul Graham and Y Combinator and something that he articulated well in one of his essays (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html). Even though it’s not one of our core values, it was something we spent lots of time thinking about while we grew up through the Y Combinator program. If you have any additional feedback to share about your experience, we encourage you to send an email to feedback@taplytics.com so we can review and address your concerns if needed. Andrew Co-Founder & COO
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