Gojek Reviews
Updated 19 Nov 2019
"Flexible working hours, strategic office location" (in 15 reviews)
"Flexible working hours with unlimited interruption when you're doing break or vacations" (in 10 reviews)
"No work life balance -- but that's startup/tech company for you" (in 8 reviews)
"But it has no clear career path" (in 8 reviews)
- Helpful (8)
"Awesome place to work in"
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Pros
Fast paced environment matched with really intelligent people
Cons
Some take the lax culture and turn it into inefficiency
Gojek2018-09-18 "A great company to work for!"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Gojek full-time for less than a year
Pros
* Company is engineering focused. Strong learning! * Loads of opportunity to travel to Indonesia/ Singapore * Learning: Company allocates a handsome per employee budget for learning!
Cons
* Its difficult to assess the impact of the work that you do since the company's product is not in India
Gojek2019-11-16"Brilliant culture, Talented employees"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Gojek full-time for more than a year
Pros
tl;dr - Gojek has the kind of work and workplace that makes me excited to get up in the morning and get to work. - The teams are highly talented and motivated and great at what they do - The mindset is very product & impact driven, which is very motivating - There are full stack teams that comprise of folks from different functions embedded into a tightly-knit product unit - Flat hierarchy - Lots of... opportunity for learning (both intra-functional and cross-functional) - Evangelism and self-development is encouraged
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- Somewhat obsolete review system, although it is currently in the process of being reformed. - Somewhat irregular and inconsistent salary updates & increments despite offering competitive salaries at the time of joining - Engineering usually given higher priority over other functions in tech
Gojek2019-11-14"Startup chaos meets enterprise processes"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Gojek full-time for more than a year
Pros
* Got to work with some amazing people
Cons
* Lots of red tape and often unnecessary process * Feedback often ignored * Unclear career progression/few options * Very chaotic, lots of wasted effort * Company seems very in love with itself, which is not conducive to actually learning and growing
Advice to Management
Make sure your principles are applied consistently across teams and locations.
Gojek2019-11-20- Helpful (1)
"Great pay & benefits, neat tech stack and a SUPERAPP"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Gojek full-time for more than a year
Pros
- Great pay & benefits - opportunities to travel to Jakarta & other markets - Solid & passionate engineers - Is a market leader and expanding into newer products, could be Indonesia's WeChat - Engagement initiatives, cafeteria facilities are amazing - Is decently funded for few more years
Cons
- Thoughtworks cartel continue to exist - People management function is really weak - Not enough focus on sustainability in whatever they do - Personal relationships still drive a lot of decisions - Rampant hiring with sub-optimal deployment of talent - Growth at mid-management levels, to a great extent, is dependent on whims of certain key people
Gojek2019-11-13 "Very good place to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Gojek full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Challenging environment Something new to work on every now and then
Cons
Should be able to manage the workload
Gojek2019-10-29"Good"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Gojek
Pros
Work culture, timings, salary, tech stack
Cons
Did not find anything bad
Gojek2019-10-27"Manager"
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I have been working at Gojek full-time
Pros
Good culture for a tech company
Cons
Fast working phase, need more clear guidance from top level
Gojek2019-10-26"Good"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Gojek full-time for more than a year
Pros
Complex problems to solve. Huge scale.
Cons
The company is so big. Sometime it is slow to communicate across different teams.
Gojek2019-10-18"Work closely with traders, approach new traders and maintain good relations between GO-JEK and traders."
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Gojek full-time for more than a year
Pros
good work culture and salary
Cons
easy to make employees to resign suddenly
Advice to Management
respect employees
Gojek2019-10-13