Jan 2025: All Previous Reviews No Longer Count - Software Engineer Dojo Employee Review

Jan 2025 they announced redundancies and a strict return to office policy of 4 days minimum. This is a trend in FAANG but have no illusion. Dojo is not a FAANG company nor will it ever be. As part of the redundancies there was no voluntary redundancy. The bundling of both redundancy and RTO is outrageous and the founders should be ashamed of themselves for ruining what was a great trusting culture. The reason for redundancies is because the founders and exec team have made poor decisions continually wasting resource, money and effort. There is no accountability for these decisions. People making these decisions ever get promoted or a wonderful golden goodbye with much praise for there efforts. The rest of the business gets cuts due to failing growth as a result of the decisions of these cuts. This is the second year in a row redundancies have happened while the business has continued to actually grow. That shows how incompetent the founders and exec are and how the lack of accountability has ruined a company that should be miles bigger and profitable than it is now. This was a company that the founders gave much lip service to being a strong close culture of inclusivity and support. Dojo has had a strong DEI initiative which I personally believe to have been a good and effective for the company. Im lucky enough to have worked with teams that were not just white middle aged men. There was no support for anyone who couldn't manage the 4 days due to family, health or personal reasons (There is an exemption form that could be requested but they made it very clear they will reject 99% of cases during the announcement). Pay increases, increases in child care support or travel support were explicitly made clear that they would not be happening. Clearly DEI was lip service and marketing rubbish from the founders. If it wasnt, there would be rolling this out these changes with support for people. This would completely have changed the perspective and saved unnecessary pain for employees. Have no illusion, this policy directly impacts the people within the DEI group. And here we are being told we should be lucky to go back to the office with an effective pay cut and seeing our children less Going forward all attendance will be tracked and disciplinary procedures will be used if you do not meet your quota. This was outlined in the documentation sent out by HR after the announcement. I am making this part of my review because I feel its important that people looking at Dojo in the future need to know how much of a rug pull was pulled by the founders. This isnt a dreamy tech company with smiles in all their recruitment videos and proud DEI foundations. In the 2024 redundancies they made clear how sad there were at having to do it and the excellent support and packages would be provided to those impacted. Not in 2025. It was a we are making redundancies and anyone left over either get into the office or resign. What happened to the company I was proud to work for