Novelship Reviews

Chris can be seemingly unprofessional at times and let his temperament/anger get the better of him. He will not hesitate to let his anger be known through obvious banging of the tables, putting things down harshly (I am refraining from using "slamming" though I believe that's how most people would describe if they experience it) so that it is clear he is unhappy about something. Such violent tendency can be quite scary if you are the lone female staff left in the office, which is in a relatively vast industrial building, in the evening or over the weekends. Richard can at times be seemingly too disconnected from the ground as he focuses on getting the necessary funding. While that is good for the business, he does not have first-hand on-the-ground experience of what the employees are feeling, or what the customers are thinking. --- As the team is pretty lean, there's definitely opportunities to progress from a career progression/development standpoint, to take on senior leadership positions and learn new skills. However, due to the seemingly incompetent leadership among the founders, if the business can't progress faster than expected, one's career development will also be limited. C-level managers/HODs are really the backbone of the leadership. They are relatively passionate, professional, and skilled. However, in the face of incompetent leadership at the founders level, they are very much restricted as well. Culture wise, the team members had tried to create a very inclusive and fun culture. However, I severely marked it down because Values carry more weight in my opinion, and this company has no people-centric values. The proclaimed wolf culture is non-existent.

With an avenue up for ex-employees and customers to share more about their real experiences with Novelship to potential investors, all we can say is all the best for your series B. What can we say that hasn't been said yet? - Offering 500 novelship points to employees so that they write positive reviews on glassdoor so that the company will appeal more to investors. - The founder's direction and plans for 2023 makes 0 sense other than continue to worsen the business outlook of novelship. Existing employees and customers who are in the know can't help but laugh and mock it. - Having a co-founder that genuinely believes that no matter how poorly customers are treated, they will always continue to buy and sell from novelship. - Blindly dumping money on a seemingly (not) good partnership that resulted in nothing. - Refusing to pay commission due to employees until the mention of involving authorities and only then agreeing to pay up. Then informing the employee to be hush about it and not let others know that they were paid. - Feigning ignorance about damages to products made by staff until customers provided proof and demanded for proof from the company. Only then did the company finally admit fault and pay them. - And many other points ex-employees and customers will share with the potential investors.