Pros
Uberflip is a great place to meet awesome people. That's probably one of the biggest draws to joining. The office is stunning (even though it's COVID right now and no one is in the office). There are fun activities that are organized. Also, most everyone has their webcams on to better connect the team even though we are all remote. Uberflip wants to have openness and transparency, there's a channel to ask senior leadership questions/concerns which will be publicly addressed. This is a great start, one suggestion would be to have an anonymous option for submission as well. Every company faces its fair share of challenges. I find all the reviews on Glassdoor for Uberflip to be extremely polarizing. Some people say it's the best place in the world to work and others find it unbearable. For me it's somewhere in the middle, there are lots of challenges for sure but there's also a great team which gives me hope.
Cons
Challenges: I think one of the biggest challenges for Uberflip has been the high turnover rates year after year. Losing great talent hurts the company, knowledge loss is a struggle across the board for every department. These turnovers are especially impactful when senior leadership positions keep becoming empty. Within the last year, almost the entire HR team either left or was let go and it happened all at once. It was shocking, to say the least. There's a general lack of understanding about the product from our clients as well as from our internal teams. Progress has been made from mandatory company-wide workshops which have been helpful for everyone to understand the product and to understand the use cases. Hopefully, we'll see the ripple effect of this as clients grow to have a better understanding as well. There is a resistance to change, innovation, or trying out new ideas. The mentality is this is how we've always done it. I wish when new ideas are proposed they would be more open to trying it out or experimenting. Layoffs happened due to Covid-19 followed by immediate promotions as well as hiring. It's just a confusing message to send to the company. Across the organization, different departments are treated differently. Before Covid-19 some departments had more work from home days than others. Also, some departments have bonuses while others do not. Not too sure why things vary so much between departments. Pay is considerably lower than the industry standard for some positions. Better career paths need to be built out for everyone, I think this is something that's improving and more of these discussions are happening. Some times it feels like we are constantly putting out fires, or over-promising to customers.