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      Insider One

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      Insider One Reviews

      4.3

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (1,596 total reviews)

      78% positive business outlook

      Insider One has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,596 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Insider One 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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      1.0
      6 Mar 2019

      think twice!! honest and %100 true insider review is here!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      There are lots of trainings and junk food (if that sounds good to you) all the time. Young and diverse population mostly new graduates and all kind of nationalities. English is the main language that you have opportunity to practice your english almost everyday. They make you to learn super fast about company, its culture and technology which is great for 21st century world. Fast growing, multinational, tech company where you can learn and leave as quickly as possible. Also they may pay low but if you need place to sleep, they offer you an apartment which is full of other employees, may be good for you.

      Cons

      If you want to work day and night including weekends, even national holidays you are more than welcome to insider. There is no extra payment for your overtime but you have to work overtime. Working hours: 10am - 8pm and there are always a training or a meeting after 8pm and if you dont join, they warn you. Co-founders set meeting at nights or weekends without any hesitate even until 1-2 am at night. They dont respect your work-life balance at all and they call this; insider culture and they say; leave if you dont like it. Salaries are very low and they also pay bonus payments by hand - not through bank, so there is no record on that.... no private health insurance, no parking area for your car, messy toilets, awful food, packed messy and overloaded working space, never fresh coffee or a tea, no company car that you have to take bus or subway while going to your customers. But instead they are giving you; free access to spotify, udemy and blinkist and also daily fruit and sometimes happy hours (free warm beer and cheap junk food)' wowww!!! They promote sleeping less, they always mention that co-founders are sleeping 3hours daily. Some co-founders believe only people who are unhappy in their jobs got married or got boyfriends/girlfriends. If you say you cant go gym because of excessive working hours, they suggest you to sleep less to have time for gym. %80 of the employees are new graduate and %80 of the managers are first time manager, basically there is no knowhow or experience. Turnover rate is super high, most people quit before 1year. There are lots of gossip and also those who wants to become a shareholder or be close to co-founders can complain about you at anytime, so, you must be stay quiet and act as you are a fan of insider or you may even die for your company. they always push you to promote company, vote for it, share post about it etc, if you dont do so they may e-mail you 100times about it, so basically there are many fake comments in here too. Employees are actually super friendly and helpful but most of the time they are too tired and sleepy. Generally, you have 15 min for lunch and 15 min for dinner and many people eat while working as no one respects to your meal times and put a meeting or training on that times. Insider is def diverse company as they have multi-national employees but never diverse according to mindset as they dont want you to talk anything they may not like (never about culture especially). They set monthly KPIs and if you cannot achieve more that %80 of it, you basically cant earn your illegal bonus, even you do so if you miss the due date of KPI realization, co-founders may reject to pay you for that month. there is always rush, stress and punishment but dont worry there is 1 hour chit-chat with your manager monthly where you can talk about your unhappiness and you can basically relief. They promote you spend all your time with insider community, they want you to stay at least 10-12 hours at office, stay at their apartments, go out with them on weekends, attend to their each and every event so that you can lose all other communities you have and easily be under their control. Last but not the least, they promote their shareholder system and they offer you a small share after 1 year if you fulfill all the criterias (real harsh ones) but actually you cannot get your share before the company is sold and if you leave the company before that you basically have nothing but they never mention this while promoting. They are far too nationalist, they try to boost Turkey love but def fake one, they only motivate you with nationalist acts to make you work excessively with low conditions and cheap ways. They believe they are the ones who can rescue Turkey and they say you have to work hard without complain in order to save Turkey, nonsense?? Overall, i suggest you to stay away and if you dont believe me i insist you to read my writing to any employee at insider and ask if i am lying :)

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      Insider One Response
      7y
      Hello, I've felt deeply sorry to read this. Thank you for the feedback but I don't think you're being fair writing this review. I'll try to give an answer to your feedbacks one by one. It's true that we work hard. Working hard is one of our core values. We go the extra mile because we know that great things never come from comfort zones. However, there is something you are missing, we also play hard. We take yoga classes every week. We learn how to make terrarium together. We organize oscar movie nights, where we watch and criticize the movies together. We organize table tennis tournaments. There are "cross coffee" and "cross drink" activities where we get to hang out with Insiders from different departments randomly in groups every week. Personal growth is also one of our core values. There are plenty of opportunities to grow at Insider such as on-going educational sessions and training including Sales training from our VP of Partners Success Team, Digital Marketing, Design 101, Customer Success, Entrepreneurship, Google Analytics, culture presentations, coding classes(from our CTO), tech talks. Here is a photo of our CEO, Co-founders, and Heads at our Leadership University with our team members:) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6473151410593624064 As one of our Digital Growth Director pointed out in the replies below, "I find our bonus structure very satisfying and fruitful", we have a competitive salary and fruitful bonus structure. Insider is a hyper-growth startup. Last year, our team increased from 200 to 400 people around the world, spanning 19 offices in Europe, Nordics and the Asia Pacific, including Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, London, and more. There are 41 different nationalities at Insider! We're always trying hard to provide our team members a diverse and welcoming community in a multicultural environment. We also have a new team member as a Global Mobility Specialist. She'll be responsible for the happiness and comfort of our team members. She will be our Global Mobility Specialist and handle all the mobility processes between our offices, and take care of work permit issues and keep Insider's diversity alive. Here's my post about our Global Mobility Specialist on Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6517070198145716224 We believe in exploring a culture by trying new foods, learning about their history and traditions not only enriches us individually but also as a community. Here is a photo of our culture presentation sessions. Our Japan Team is teaching us how to make sushi:) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv1Vzg2l4aL/ We work together as a family to build this company. Everyone is expected to act as an owner and grow fast. We are a small and fast growing team from across the world( from London to Tokyo, Singapore to Moscow, 19 regions to be exact!) and keep flat hierarchies for maximum impact. We help each other, teach each other, and learn from each other. We believe that world-class performance is a byproduct of an empowered, well-trained, and happy team. We care about each other, and the world we live in. Here is how our family looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2AeBmexQog Insider is a young start-up, we both have experienced and inexperienced team members. If you're looking for personal growth, the upside is that Insider is a dynamic, fast evolving environment, which values initiative. It is great for figuring out what you're best at and excelling in it. So if you want to grow personally and professionally, this is the place for you. Hear from our country manager for Korea about what initially drew him to Insider. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6519876140847501312 We use feedback to help make Insider a great place to work for truly everyone. Our CEO regularly organizes Ask me Anything (AMA) sessions. AMA sessions are one and a half hour long Q&A sessions. Insiders get to ask whatever’s on their mind to our CEO during these sessions. Topics include both company-related and personal questions. Our CEO answers all questions transparently. We use a "Satisfaction and Net Promoter Survey" tool which enables us to hear everyone out.Insiders give their insights into their departments. Every comment is evaluated by our CEO and CEO's Team and then Heads and Country Managers share the action points. Besides, everyone has 1&1 meetings with their Heads regularly. I agree with you that anyone can ask any questions to our team members at Insider. Also, anyone who'd like to visit our regional offices, they're welcome. Candidates experience our culture and office environment in our recruiting process. Thank you for the feedback but I don't think you're being fair writing this review. We always take feedback seriously, it's a really important way for us to continue to improve and grow.
      1.0
      4 May 2019

      Brainwashing and fake, overtime unpaid and mandatory

      Product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - young, and great people Other then that: - chaos, that covers lack of professionalism - a lot of cheap perks (free food, free room) to explain super underpaid salaries And no more.

      Cons

      First of all, all 5 star reviews are written by HR, as they are asked to do so from fake accounts. For juniors Never worked anywhere, you like free food, low salaries, free beer once a month, 12 a day work day without overtime paid, fake family and pinto pong playing? Well, you get here also a lot of trainings from people that read an article, and watched a tutorial on YouTube about the topic, and knows not more about it, But they are for free. It’s not a corporation you feel like at home, you can watch YouTube, work 12h a day and have a beer after or during work. But is corporate job so bad if they pay normal salaries? For senior If you want to go to a fake family, where under “care” and help they mean, work 12h+ a day without overtime paid, as this is “care” then this place is for you. If being 24/7 at work without additional pay, with super low salary, but once a month getting free beer and some chips cheering “we change the world” this place is for you. If you like to be brainwashed, hear how much you change the world, how your family will be proud of you, how important is to be a shareholder - while producing pop ups for websites, everyday with overtime and technology that is mostly a duck taped code? Yes, this company is for you. If professionalism, management or opportunities doesn’t need to exist in companies, then - yes you guessed it - this company is for you. In the end, people here come and go more often then you wash your dirty cloths. Once you come, you try to get out as fast as possible. Culture is the worst, not only fake but also repealing

      1.0
      5 Dec 2020

      DON'T BELIEVE THE FAKE REVIEWS! RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN FROM INSIDER'S DISTOPIA

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Self-development if you're a newbie

      Cons

      Poor work-life balance: They literally say it as exactly in these sentences: "We don't believe in work-life balance. We believe in work-life integration." And, work-life integration means you will no longer have a personal life. If you're signed up for this, forget spending time with your family, friends or beloved ones. Even on weekends. A holiday? Forget it. And yes, even George Orwell wouldn't have imagined this form of a dystopia. Overtime working hours without payment: Get ready for working on national holidays, weekends and every special day you can name. Btw, they are marketing working especially on national holidays by CEO emailing all the employees in Turkey saying "we work on national holidays to create more national holidays". Of course pumping nationalist feelings doesn't show consistency if your HQ is in Singapore on the financial papers. They are calling them a Turkish startup, if they are talking to someone in Turkey, however they don't even mention Turkey when they're abroad talking to people in crowded, famous events. They mostly hide that they're a Turkish startup, since they strongly believe that foreigners are not going to trust them if they learn their so-called technology startup is from Turkey. Law salaries: I saw people working under minimum salary. No need to say more. Micromanagement: Even if they are trying to make you believe that you're taking responsibilities, they will be following up every second. If you don't reply the messages on the weekend, get ready for the bullying on Monday. Inexperience Senior Management: (P.S. Positive reviews are written by the HR team or content writers working in Insider. Believe me, I've seen a content writer working on Glassdoor reviews to propagate fake reviews. They really are unbelievable.)

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      Insider One Response
      5y
      Thank you for your feedback but honestly, this review upset me in every possible way. First of all, we call ourselves the People and Culture Team not HR, and nobody from our team propagates fake reviews. These are the real thoughts of our team members. How can we convince them to write a review which they don’t believe? They are a bunch of people who have free will and nobody can force them anything. At Insider, we never push any people from our team to write positive comments on Glassdoor because we are the company where everyone here is free to express themselves and share their opinions of any kind openly. Because we believe that open and constructive feedback can bring people together and creates a healthy communication flow. We always listen to feedback actively, taking the time to analyze them, and then thinking of the best possible solution to perform better accordingly. Hear from our Product Manager about how we value our team members' opinion: “The difference it has from other places is that in Insider I always feel that regardless of your age or title your opinion is valued and I’ve always felt it ever since I joined. That’s impact, being able to express your opinion and ideas without a know-it-all manager telling you your opinion doesn’t matter.” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/suyla-turanalp-37702013a_product-insider-saas-activity-6747793927954276352-lma_ Regarding your work-life balance review, one of our core values is working hard to achieve the extra mile because it is very well known that great things never come from the comfort zone. We explain our core values during the interview to our candidates, we do not give them fake promises, we explain our working environment, we explain our working hard culture and they accept it in the offer stage, we are expecting that you decide your own terms. Yes we work hard but at the same time “Insider unequivocally offers the opportunity to grow staggeringly, and learn tremendous amounts of skill sets. You not only magnify your capacities but also acquire extensive know-how.” as our Digital Growth Director in Taiwan said: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/useinsider_hearfrominsiders-activity-6577879594983133185-UCfQ. But while working in a fast-paced environment I absolutely agree with you on the fact that Insider is not for everybody. Regarding your low salary comment, I can not accept this feedback because we care about our team members and we work with outside partners to ensure we pay fair market value and offer generous equity packages for all our full-time team members. We are putting so much effort into making our team members feel financially secure.
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