Save Yourself The Trouble...Find A Better Opportunity - Anonymous employee YPlan Employee Review

1.0
19 Jan 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people. Seriously the most talented, intelligent, well-connected, awesome group of people I've ever worked with (though 98% of them were laid off for seemingly no reason around Thanksgiving). Friends for life. The London office seems to be chugging along fantastically, but fair warning to U.S. applicants...run far away. (You'll notice lots of positive reviews from the London office, but beware that several of these are fake from Marketing/Ops teams members to save face. Yikes. Shady business.)

Cons

Some of the worst upper management I have ever seen in any organization...ever. The founders are practically cyborg robots with no human emotion or empathy and they hire upper management puppets who do whatever they tell them to instead of smart leaders who challenge and further the business model. They've closed Las Vegas and Edinburgh without a peep, San Francisco is run by algorithms, and NYC is hanging by a string (less than a handful of employees left). London's seems to be doing grand, but they have no experts to help run the U.S. and it's obvious.

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4.0
22 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The work schedule was well managed. There were no emergencies, no sudden fires to put out, no radical changes of direction where partially completed work was abandoned. This kind of stability is rare to see in a startup company.

Cons

Their business model was not performing very well, and they had to make a number of layoffs.

1.0
25 Nov 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Best colleagues in the world. Friends for life and the most awesome professional network.

Cons

In a matter of one (1) day an entire office was laid off due to what seems like a pretty spontaneous and rather thoughtless decision by the top management. Not only did it come as a complete shock, the way it was done was out of this world: weak, childish and with such a lack of understanding of the actual impact for the employees. Despite all the effort, awesome team-work and late nights working to reach goals and meet very tight company deadlines there have been no warnings, no follow-ups and no sense of caring for the people laid off. Best colleagues in the world but worst top management I've ever experienced.

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