Varjo Reviews

2.6

31% would recommend to a friend

(25 total reviews)

Timo Toikkanen

38% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Varjo has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 25 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Varjo employee rating is 32% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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25 reviews
2.0
20 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice and friendly environment, office literally at the center of the city and good benefits. Working with cutting edge technologies is a bonus.

Cons

I can't really trust the company anymore since they literally layoff a lot of people who worked hard so much since the start of the company used covid as an excuse. Now I am looking at some of the people that they fired so far that is working 10 times harder than me, I feel like they will lay me off next when they are done with me. I am not the only one even thinking like this in the company.

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Varjo Response
4y
Dear Varjoan, We are happy to hear that you enjoy our friendly atmosphere, great benefits and working with the most bleeding-edge virtual and mixed reality technology in the world. On the other hand, we are very sorry to learn about your feelings this way. We want to address that your interpretation of ‘using covid as an excuse’ for layoffs is not true. During spring 2020, we were forced to adapt our business to the dramatic economic downturn – similarly as thousands of other technology companies in the world. COVID weakened our customers’ ability to invest for an unpredictable period of time. The unknown path forward meant that Varjo had to cut costs to secure our company’s future. We are extremely sorry that we could not entirely avoid personnel cuts. The Varjo team, including our alumni, are an exceptionally hard-working and talented group of people. We are forever grateful to our team members for their contributions. Since then, Varjo has been on a steady financial growth curve, growing fast and also made significant efforts to keep the entire Varjo team up-to-date about our business with full transparency. We hope that we have started to earn back your trust since you’ve written this review.
2.0
24 Jan 2025

About to sink and desperate management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work life balance, including managers that come in for like four hours a day. Travel is fun and the team has a good energy to it. Finland HR is wonderful.

Cons

The company isn’t doing well at all. Management all knew each other before getting hired so there’s an inappropriate bias at that upper level. Desperate to hit an unattainable quota. People leave and the position doesn’t get replaced. Micromanaging of account executives. No career path because they can’t hire or need new headcount. Managers get title changes and promotions while the rest of the team struggles to get by since they never can hit quota. All the best employees in the US and Helsinki have left.

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Varjo Response
1y
Dear former colleague, thank you for sharing your feedback. We're very sorry to hear that your experience at Varjo wasn’t what it should have been and that you felt unsupported by your management. That’s not the kind of workplace we want to be. While we can’t change the past, we take this seriously and are always working to improve. We appreciate your time with us and wish you the best in whatever comes next. - The Varjo Team
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