Great company, great people - Storyteller Prezly Employee Review

5.0
Mar 21, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Prezly is remote-first, and they support their employees working from wherever works best for them. The team is friendly, and everyone gets along. The software is great, and the owners are very involved.

Cons

No healthcare, which is fine because most of the team is in the EU, but I eventually had to leave because I moved to the States. Wouldn't have left otherwise.

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1.0
Dec 10, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

contemporary tech stack, you will use modern frameworks like next js.

Cons

Contract Terminated without warning , only got a simple "SORRY" and unpaid invoice. i didn’t except this, nevertheless i stayed professional through out the whole process.

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3.0
Oct 6, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

+ Extremely flat hierarchy, feels like none + You will learn more than 50+ modern, great SaaS products that Prezly uses internally to manage the company: Notion, Clubhouse, Fullstory and much. more + You will be a part of a 99% transparent company (literally paychecks are the only secret) + You will get to know interesting, young people + You will be treated with great respect and culture + Fully remote culture company + You will have total freedom over your working time, company won't require you to log any hours nor require you to sit through (except calls) + You can have some fun as the members are young and creative, come up with funny stories, watercooler breaks, remote happenings, retreats etc. + You will have a 3000 EUR Office Budget for free, unless they ask you or you leave under 1 year of work + You feel like being part of the management from the start, you're asked for opinions which are heard, commented and taken into account + You will have direct contact with Prezly's customers and support them on their journeys + They pay for doing the recruitment test task + You will develop in a trunkbased development workflow, where app deployments are a breeze + You will work with a VERY helpful and skilled developer team of professionals + You will get a decent pay without waiting times

Cons

- You will be made feeling like you can do whatever you like in the company, no strictness, no sprint commitments etc. which can make one lax - Nobody will tell you what is expected from you, so you will have no idea how to achieve success in your role - The overall onboarding process is starting out nice, but ends up nowhere - Product onboarding is none, except what you learn during the recruitment test task - There are no coding standards defined - the "lead" developer will reveal some to you during your journey - Invisible time pressure on releasing features - You will find the codebase awkward and unlike everything you possibly have learned in other companies, that adhere to SOLID, OOP, Symfony, PSR etc. standards - The product is very complex and has twisted logic, inconsistent database schema, with a lot of pitfalls, dead-ends and only few people can help you with information - Lack of solid developer documentation - There is no room or will for refactorings; ideas are respected though shelved - You will have no feedback on your work from the bosses, until day zero, when you hit the evaluation call, even though they were closely monitoring your work - They may not reveal to you, that you're on a trial period, on contrary make you feel as you're already part of the family - If you are not a rock coding star, forget about passing the 3 month trial. The real expectations from a developer are very high, since the product's codebase is super-hard

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Prezly Response
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Every 3 months I go back to this review and try to make changes for the better. A lot of the comments are on-point. Plenty to learn from. Done between this review (2020) and today: developer documentation, coding standards, Additionally we've been doing monthly checkins for almost a year now. This helps with feedback on the work, expectations and the comment about having no idea that you are on a trial. Sure we're not there yet, the next step is hiring a dedicated HR role to help improve the onboarding ,
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