Non-white males, beware - Anonymous employee AppDirect Employee Review

3.0
Feb 25, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Office and location, benefits, some talented and kind people, interesting problems, millions in investment by well-known investors (Peter Thiel and JP Morgan Chase)

Cons

If you think Uber is bad... AppDirect has all the same problems and worse, because they don't yet have the profits or reach to justify it. They've hemorrhaged entire teams of talented people over the past few years, to say nothing of all the minorities and women they've mistreated and driven away. Nepotism begets nepotism. Leadership has made no effort to change. There is no soul-searching, empathy, or critical judgment when you've had everything handed to you your whole life. They've squandered talent — everyone who doesn't look or act like the leadership eventually leaves. If you have no ambition or independent thought, then this is the company for you. In terms of strategy, they've spread themselves thin with a lack of product focus and a string of vanity acquisitions. Eventually the multi-year contracts procured with inflated promises will run out so it's only a matter of time before the lack of results speaks for itself.

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AppDirect Response
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Thank you for your feedback and I apologize for the delayed response. We want people to look back at their time here as one of the best they’ve had in their career, so I’m sorry to hear that wasn’t your experience. Our priority is ensuring a fair and open workplace for everyone and retaining great talent by doing that. As you mentioned, we’ve experienced rapid growth in recent years and with that comes some growing pains. To account for that we are building out a solid management layer to scale for the growth and address any areas where we can improve. Thank you again for sharing your concerns and wish you all the success in the future.

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