The Titanic - Anonymous employee BridgeU Employee Review

2.0
Feb 10, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of great people to work with, everyone is friendly and gets along well. People seem to stay long after tiring of the constant drama because of friendships with their coworkers. The office environment is the same as most startups, open office, table tennis, beer at the end of the day, etc. For some roles, there is opportunity to travel or attend events.

Cons

For many reasons, employees are leaving at alarming rates. There is no proper internal organisation and everything seems chaotic. The management team has also created a large rift between themselves and everyone else. Rather than address root causes of company issues, employees are blamed and severely micromanaged. They refuse to listen when suggestions are made, and those bringing up issues are often reprimanded at best or fired at worst. They have unknowingly trained employees to paint a pretty picture that everything is fine, rather than tell the truth when reporting upwards because of this culture of retribution. Outside of the development team and brand new starters, there are few employees who aren't searching for new jobs, and conversations are openly had amongst employees about how interviews are going and who will be the next to quit.

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BridgeU Response
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Thanks for your review - we appreciate you taking the time to give us this feedback and we’re sorry you didn’t have a good experience working here. We agree that the environment here created by our people is one of the best things about working here and the friendly startup culture is something we’re always working to preserve. It is true that in a startup things can be chaotic - prospective employees of startups of all stages should be comfortable with change and happy to move at a fast pace. We take open communication and multi-directional feedback very seriously and we’re always looking for ways to improve this. Internal communication is something we’re always looking to improve now and in the future. A level of turnover in a startup is of course inevitable, but our top priority is to retain great talent, and we’re always looking for ways to improve this, so we appreciate your feedback. Wishing you all the best in your next role and thank you for you work here.

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