Good on the surface, garbage behind the scenes - Anonymous Hokodo Employee Review

1.0
Feb 21, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The people that work here are friendly and collaborative

Cons

- Treat employees like Disposables: fires people based on its short-term strategy. There were numerous layoffs in the sales department due to the strategy at the time. One or two quarters later, they hired many salespeople because of a shift in strategy. - If you're best buddies with the founders, your job security is fine, even if you're not fit for the job. It appears personal connections matter more than job qualifications. -Lacks transparency about its situation: flew the entire company to another country for a nice offsite, followed by unexpected layoffs and claimed it's because of financial difficulties. At the same time, they hired executives with generous paychecks, leaving employees feeling misled. - Discriminative Environment: held an event that encouraged discrimination based on gender and body type in one offsite, making people uncomfortable. Despite reporting it to HR, no action was taken. Company awards also seem biased, favoring specific personality traits and teams, making it challenging for quieter individuals or teams with fewer inter-team collaborations to get recognition.

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5.0
Apr 30, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

Good company culture and benefits

Cons

A very competitive industry to be in

1.0
Dec 22, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Top line business proposition has potential.

Cons

The implementation/ business approach is diabolical. The bottom line is, strategy is effective a clear narrative is shared across an organisation and revenue growth is seen. The objective results so far: multiple rounds of lay offs Stale revenue employees confused and unsecure non-sensical pivots every few months Communicated/justified that this is an 'inevitable part of start up life' when in reality these are founders and senior leaders who are better placed in stale big corporations, they are not equipped to lead a start up business.

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