Circles.Life Reviews

Pros

AMAZING team of professionals working hard to build a great company. Have the right mindset and culture. Really good team of leaders supporting the vision and empowering the teams to take it to the next level. - Launched 10 new products in 45 days including COVID-19 focused features to help customers during this difficult time - Amazing vibe and startup feel as the growth team powers on through COVID-19 and WFH - Good response by the founders for the COVID-19 outbreak and made clear swift decisions to protect employees - Overall great place to work, few bad decisions last year but part of growth u make mistakes

Cons

- Too many people were hired and had to lay off because they all could not be productive - Somewhere really bad and had a negative impact on our culture - U can see from the negative glassdoor reviews ;)

Pros

No hierarchy- you can approach the leadership team and the founders anytime with ideas or concerns. Project ownership - you will be given the opportunity to lead projects if you perform well. High standards - they expect quality work and high output pushing you to work and deliver better (great opportunity to grow)

Cons

Sometimes you might lack direction in the project. In which case, you have to test your assumptions frequently (ask fundamental questions).

Pros

- Pantry is well stocked with goodies. Not many companies have that. - Positive work environment - Office area has a lot of cheap eating places - I have a good manager, having one is important (you'll see the other reviews here attacking someone which is really unprofessional) - Flexible work time - Able to work from home when needed - Founders are really good

Cons

- Not a bad company, has potential but with many messy processes - Start-up vibe - Office is too industrial and old for a hip company - Benefits should be more - A lot of communication issues and a lot of salty employees (they are not satisfied even if you give them a cake, they want the whole bakery instead) - HR is too small and overloaded with work that they take so much time to complete their tasks

Pros

Product is decent; above-average even. A tiny percentage of leadership are made up of really brilliant folks. Perks are abundant at Circles.Life, food, snacks, drinks, coffee.

Cons

A very unforward-thinking organization. 1) Clear over-hiring practices during scaling for an asset-light company, and then performed several retrenchment/firing exercises (only join if you're looking to use them as a stepping stone). 2) Claim to be fast-paced, but sets yearly OKRs, which are not realistic due to the nature of the industry and competition, etc. Even though they tried adapting the quarterly OKR model, no clear methodology was used to deploy the new process. 3) Had more than a year to develop the "ecosystem" that they've always touted to investors, but chose not to. The evidence of this was the demolition of the ideathon practice where they encouraged employees to contribute new ideas for new relevant products or verticals. Key unresolved issues within the top management. A) The '3-cofounder' model is clearly a tactic to absolve themselves from mistakes and responsibility. They refuse to nominate 1 CEO. Each co-founder supposedly has a clear portfolio to manage, but in reality, they overlap, thus small issues can take months to resolve due to disagreement among themselves. If you're looking for a company with strong leadership, give this one a pass. B) They are clearly inexperienced handling a company of this size and stage. Even the CTO seems to be better equipped in handling the direction of the company. Hold on, why is there a CTO if there are no C-suites? Dishonesty is the core of this company. i) For all the talk about bonuses and stock options, they never kept their promises. Terms in the contract are intentionally made vague (it's technically legal, so there's no case to bring to court). If you've been offered a role, please question the HR hard because you can be sure they can't give specifics. ii) Their transparency is a farce as important communications to employees keep dwindling. They also don't address legitimate issues that have been raised in meetings and townhalls. The values and mission they keep selling are never seen in the 3 co-founders, so don't expect anyone else to exhibit them! iii) You'll be surprised to find out that there's no fixed date for payroll as well. Your salary can just "drop" any time near the end of the month. You must love guessing games and anticipation to join this organization.