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      Codility Reviews

      4.1

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (119 total reviews)

      Natalia Panowicz

      71% approve of CEO

      65% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.7

      Compensation and benefits

      4.2

      Diversity and inclusion

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Culture and values

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Senior management

      Codility has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 119 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Codility employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      119 reviews
      1.0
      4 Apr 2023

      What happened? A tragic and cautionary tale of how NOT to run a business

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Salaries have always been good. Overall, people at the IC level were phenomenal to work with. Many leaders at Director/Senior Director/VP levels were encouraging and excellent at helping you in your career growth and progression.

      Cons

      After the 3rd round of "lay-offs" in 9 months - I write it that way intentionally because this round felt like they were cleaning house. There wasn't any rhyme or reason to their decisions on who should go and who should stay. The senior leadership team - especially the CEO during this round, lacked any humanity and seemed to be detached in an incredibly cold way. The values of "We are human, We are real, We take ownership" seem to fall by the wayside when it suits. I had always felt proud to work at Codility. When we closed Series B, I felt like things were on the up. However, the consistent poor decisions on how to spend money made many people fearful for the future. Quite rightly, it turned out. A prime example is when Sales started to decline in 2022, the Execs still flew here, there and everywhere for offsite meetings (on a nearly monthly basis, you had 5 or 6 people flying across the globe until March 2023). Not to mention hiring C-level Execs consistently who come in for a few months whereby they are seen to be the second coming and expected to solve all the problems in the company before they once more fall out of favour and the process is then rinsed and repeated again and again. Another weird choice of spending, the Execs insisted on keeping an entire company offsite in the Dominican Republic. There were almost 200 people brought together (one month after the last round of lay-offs) under the guise of not wanting to lose the deposits that had already been spent - the cost-sunk fallacy seemed to escape the people with the checkbook. Their thoughts of "Let us spend $750k more to avoid losing $100k" seemed idiotic. This again became a clue of what was to come. Less than two months after the global offsite, another almost 40 people lost their jobs. I think Codility's Board must ask themselves if the CEO is fit to take Codility to the next step. Profitability will not be achieved if spending continues as it has. Saying this round of layoffs will be the last is not reasonable or realistic.

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      Codility Response
      3y
      I’m deeply sorry for the pain and disappointment that working at Codility has caused you. Over the course of the last 9 months we have indeed done three team reductions. In March 2023 we made an extremely painful decision to restructure our full organization and enter the fastest possible path to profitability. This way we have our future in our own hands, regardless of whether the tech economy rebounds quickly or not. We indeed experienced declining new sales in the second half of 2022. Codility products are used for hiring engineers, and as the tech economy slowed, many current and prospective customers have had hiring freezes and team reductions, which had an impact on us. We have since then focused our go-to-market efforts on sectors in the economy that are less impacted by this downturn, and see positive results in our pipeline. We indeed had a global offsite in January 2023 in the Dominican Republic. This has been two years in the making and the first occasion for the company to get together after the pandemic. In 2022 we had a few executive departures. Not all my executive hiring in the past proved to be correct. I have learned from every hire and mis-hire, improved my process, and have complete confidence in our exec team now. I’m indeed acting Head of Product. This is a temporary solution until we find our next product leader, who we are in active search for. Between 2021 and 2022 our product development process was inefficient. We have been correcting it for the last three quarters and brought focus, innovation, and speed back to how we work in product. Other points in your review are factually incorrect. Further to your point about me lacking humanity and being detached in an incredibly cold way, I’m deeply sorry that this is how I came across to you. This perception can’t be farther from what I was experiencing. As I told personally to all our people that were leaving and all our people that were staying, every single departure was a pain and loss for Codility and a personal pain and loss for me as Codility CEO and Co-Founder. I carry this pain with me.
      1.0
      23 Apr 2023

      How to loose great culture

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Great people and great teams before "culture fit" filter hit recruitment. If your manager liked you, you could get promoted easily.

      Cons

      Employees were brainwashed with "values" about "being human", "being real", "taking ownership" - and all of that was used only as a weapon towards candidates and employees who delivered but provided honest feedback. If you didn't agree with leadership you "weren't real", when leaders did a mistake and you called it out you were told "that you didn't take ownership", if leaders were favored and someone called that out you "weren't human". How can you work in conditions like that? How can you give feedback (which you were encouraged to do) but only the one that praises everything? (otherwise you wouldn't be culture fit) No wonder that employees didn't feel motivated and sales alongside with product went downhill. It wasn't "market conditions" it was toxic culture. You can't deliver to the company that disrespects you!

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      Codility Response
      2y
      What happened to us was a result of hyper growth due to a booming market in 2020 and 2021 which in hindsight created various cultural, process, and control problems. A few leaders turned out not to be right. When the downturn happened, all these issues came to the fore. We decisively corrected the course and eradicated many issues you experienced. We’re back to a healthy no bullshit place which happened to be a fundamental Codility value from the very early days. CEO & Co-Founder
      1.0
      7 May 2023

      Not a healthy environment

      Information security analyst
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      Pros

      People were nice. Salaries above market rate. If you got a chance to speak with somebody who was passionate about their job it was perfect.

      Cons

      Toxic environment created by all C - level. Company tried to be more inclusive which lead to hiring people without enough competence for the position. Not to mentioned directors or C levels hiring their friends and colleagues which lead to letting good people go to make place. Not a healthy environment to work with. Some projects/ subjects were not treated with enough attention from higher position. They were more focused on generating profits than overall company working on a stable manner. Some departments were under staffed where others had directors with no team to begin with. Few poor business decisions led to people stop trusting the board. Managers that will claim they did the hard work, were in reality it was all carried by ICs.

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      Codility Response
      2y
      I believe you have left Codility some time in 2022, and by now we have eradicated all of the issues you mention in your review. What happened to us was hyper growth due to a booming market in 2020 and 2021 which, in hindsight, created various cultural, process, and control problems. CEO & Co-Founder
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