Nice people, but a company in decline - Anonymous employee Foolproof Employee Review

3.0
Jun 12, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people are really nice, and there's a friendly and supportive culture. You get to work on big brands and put interesting work in your portfolio. Work-life balance is fantastic. Mostly good hardware and software tools (Figma, Notion, Slack, etc.) Pay is decent. Very relaxed about where and when you work, flexible working, etc - they don't force you into an office x days a week for the sake of it.

Cons

The company has been on the decline for a few years now. The work you do is still good, but the employee experience is getting worse and worse. Benefits are below average, no training budget, comms leave much to be desired, HR is so under-staffed it's a joke, policies being handed down from a 10,000 person company, leadership team doesn't seem to have any control on anything and are terrible at communicating. Morale is low. You get the sense that people are just going through the motions and waiting for market to pick up so they can move on to a better opportunity. Retention is bad but would be even worse if the economy wasn't so uncertain.

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Foolproof Response
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Firstly, thank you for taking the time to share your experience of working at Foolproof. Our people and culture make up an important part of Foolproof, so it’s great to hear about your positive experiences working alongside your fellow colleagues. As mentioned in your review, we pride ourselves on our supportive culture as well as the flexibility and work-life balance we offer our employees, and view all three of these as benefits of working at Foolproof and a testament to our talent. We are therefore disappointed to hear about your perspective on employee experience and your observations on the company benefits and communications from the leadership team being poor. As a team, we do aim to provide timely responses to our employees’ questions, but often need to discuss these with wider teams within the business first. However, we are aware that this can sometimes lead to a delay in communications and reassure you that this is an issue we discuss frequently. We do take your feedback on board and we are continually working to improve communications, transparency and internal processes as well as to align investments to right initiatives. As a current employee I'd like to invite you to have a conversation with me in confidence (at leslie.fountain@foolproof.co.uk) to discuss these points. Kind regards, Leslie

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