Giveffect Reviews

3.3

66% would recommend to a friend

(27 total reviews)

Allan Shin and Kevin Shin

88% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Giveffect has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 27 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Giveffect employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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27 reviews
1.0
1 Sept 2017

Don't waste your time

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Dogs might be allowed in the office! The CEO and manager are decent people outside of the office- fun to talk to, have great stories, are hospitable. When I quit after a month, I was congratulated on my new position and was wished the best of luck.

Cons

I was quoted two different salaries by two different people. In my interview with the CEO, she hung up on me. In my interview with the manager, she was 15 minutes late and ended the conversation early. In the offer conversation, I emailed them a question and was never answered. Orientation was incredibly disorganized and brutal. The CEO would say one thing and the manager would say something different. The CEO also spoke poorly of the manager's lack of experience behind the manager's back. They both would talk poorly of previous employees. I ended up doing a lot of the tech set up for the new team and felt that was unfair to expect of a new team member themselves. The position itself is stressful since it is sales and the bar is set high, but the CEO and manager are cold towards requested feedback. They routinely made team members cry and boosted some team members undeservingly. The office was also under construction and we all got sick, but since healthcare isn't available for three months, we were told in no shortage of words to suck it up. On a personal and minuscule note, there was no in-house coffee and the CEO and manager avoided eye contact with me as if I would turn them to stone.

1.0
25 Jun 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The office is in Midtown Atlanta.

Cons

Giveffect is an organization where you will not be given opportunities to develop your skill set or utilize your competencies to further the business. Instead, the CEO subscribes to micromanagement as their leadership philosophy. You will only be able to operate within the small box that she prescribes for you and competency is defined as your ability to do a task as close to how she desires. By this, if you are in sales, you're training is simply listening to previous presentations so that you learn how to present the material identical to how Anisa does. This is ideal should your goal be to climb the ladder at Giveffect, but you will not really learn skills that can be transferred to other positions should you outgrow/decide to move on from Giveffect. The real problem with this organization is that leadership has no desire to learn from past mistakes. Many of the behaviors and actions that led to the firm moving from San Francisco to Atlanta are being repeated. One would think that after seeing a slowdown in sales and inability to maintain a staff above 12 that the twins and Anisa would reflect on what is going wrong, however, it appears this pony only has one trick.

1.0
18 Jan 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Seemed promising at the start. Lured me in with promises of building something great together (HA!)

Cons

Relocated me to San Fran and fired me after two weeks. Boss was extremely controlling and manipulative...think helicopter parent who tries to get two kids to compete against one another. Snobby and unwilling to hear any opinions from lowly sales people. Their goal seems to be to burn through as many sales people as it takes to get their "tech startup off the ground." Doesn't care, will use you and push you out into the street and take in the next poor soul. Tremendously unprofessional. Maybe the biggest thing for me is this company FABRICATES fake people who "work" at the company and bring them up to try to make the company appear larger than it actually is. Also, the company is based out of a residential building, so get used to dealing with parking garage issues and fighting with other tenants who live there. Most of this stuff they can say is just a part of "startup culture" and their precious Y-Combinator. They are simply trying to rip off non-profits. Charging way too much for software they can find elsewhere. Shame on this amateur company.

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