Pros
Lovely people Good friendships On the surface the mission is strong
Cons
Too Good to Go is a company of two extremes. On one hand they recognise when a function doesn’t exist and fill that space with a senior hire. On the other, they employ very green candidates with a limited lifespan, to compensate for the fact they don’t create an infrastructure which supports any learning and development (let alone any processes or tools to help and empower people to work smarter). You’ll find that they are not only paying below market rate (because people want to work in ‘sustainability’) but they consistently hire more junior candidates to do very manual work to compensate for lack of any intelligent strategy or resource planning. There are little to no growth opportunities, training is incredibly basic (again, aimed at first or second jobbers) and salaries are low. There are no useful benefits and unfortunately they promote legacy hires over more suitable external candidates. I believe this is so that they don’t need to pay the market rate. The product and tech teams are centralised and impenetrable. There is no feedback loop between any employees and this function, which is bizarre. There is no cohesion across markets which is quite stressful to navigate. My advice to anyone wishing to join this company is to understand that despite its size, everything is boot strapped and they don’t want to change that. Everything is done on hundreds of google sheets and there is barely an operations or tech function. If this is your first job, go for it. If you’re mid to senior level, look beyond the mission and go elsewhere.
