Some rotten apples in the basket - Software Developer Freespee Employee Review

1) Decent set of clients spread across different industries 2) Parts of the business have very smart and informed people 3) Well meaning culture, despite being a little directionless

1) Poor direction and comms from the board down 2) Blind to the competition in some of the regions 3) Poor decision making on the direction of the product roadmap

Low pressure culture, not a huge workload. Labs time for experimenting. Pro-AI and uses Claude.

Incompetence is rewarded if you are loud enough. The quiet people that are getting on with work are sidelined and never receive a promotion. Many people are completely reliant on AI and cannot perform their role without it. Many people, including management, record meetings with both colleagues and customers without consent. Turbulent C-suite with lots of recent poor hires not working out and either leaving or switching roles. Those that remain are all white Swedes, despite having offices across different countries. Many come across as narcissistic. Incompetence is rewarded at this level as well, with title changes to mask the fact that the person hired was wrong to begin with. Lacklustre product with only a handful of active users - most customers can’t use the platform because it doesn’t work at their scale, and therefore they ingest the data via API instead. The whole customer-facing application should be deprioritised. ICP changes from day to day — one day its automotive marketplaces, the next it’s OEMs and residential marketplaces. Right now, we’re back to automotive marketplaces. Far too many meetings. A company all-hands every single week, a separate weekly engineering all-hands as well, plus managers who seem to want to fill their — and your — calendar with one-hour meeting blocks. An employee NPS survey repeatedly returns high results, because people answer incorrectly for fear of being identified. A few long-term employees push up the average tenure.