Curve reviews about "colleague"

There is a fundamental lack of structure and policies are only selectively enforced. This means vital processes are highly unclear and subject to sometimes ill-informed managerial whim. This applies equally across the business. Engineers build adaptability into code as they know priorities will shift with office politics. Vendor managers shape contracts to be able to adapt to officially impossible future conditions. HR decisions are unclear and based on what appears to be a kind of popularity. Diktat reigns over process. Thus, while most people thoroughly enjoy working with their colleagues at Curve, expect exceptionally high turnover - from C-suite execs to CX agents.

At the end of the day you are just a number. From one day to another you will get informed that you will need to work back to back 12 hours shifts due to high backlog without asking you if you can schedule your life around it. If you can't make it the door is always open to go.. The same applies to the targets and metrics that you must achieve on a daily basis in order to keep your job. The asking targets were increase by almost 50% from one day to another. If you couldn't hit the new targets within the first week, your job might be at risk they said.

Long hours, some poor management

High expectations and fast paced!

Work-life balance can be challenging, with expectations of long hours. Rapid changes in direction can make it hard to feel stable in your role. Management can be hit or miss—some supportive, others lacking leadership skills. Career progression is unclear, with limited transparency on growth opportunities.

No cons if you want to grab opportunities and appreciate working in a startup

No company is perfect, and when I left Curve I went to another (much bigger but earlier stage) startup, so I'm not leaving feedback based on the shock of working at a startup - for those who don't know, it's hard. It's also been a little while since I left the company and I wasn't let go, so I'm not leaving feedback based on the anger of being fired. I'm going to start with the biggest problem first, the CEO. Shachar is the worst CEO I've ever worked with in my life. No one expects a perfect CEO. We're all human. He's the sole reason I left the company, and I will never ever work for him, or in a place that has anything to do with him ever again. He's not just arrogant... arrogance is fine, the problem is that he is deluded. He really believes "some people are just born with determination, and others are born stupid" (verbatim quote from a leader who is meant to inspire), and he believes that he knows better than people doing their jobs - forcing them to make decisions he wants to make, and them blaming them for the failure. Very few ex-curvers have anything good to say about him. He loves the sound of his own voice, but he is so, so unengaging, and so uninspiring (pls scroll through his Twitter feed before taking any offer). He quite literally requotes the USA CEO - takes quotes from her Twitter and says it during all hands as his own (note: she should be the CEO - She is an incredible leader). He doesn't realise that fear isn't the only leadership style, and it's so cringe-worthy seeing him repeat in an all-hands a "Here are 22 fear-tactics to get your employees working again" that I saw on Twitter the day before. Okay, onto the next point. Curve is a very average product. Curve Credit will save Curve, but Curve itself doesn't provide much value, aside from for a few nerdy people that like adopting new gadgets and products (like myself). Curve won't ever be better than average. It's hard to write that down, because we tried and tried and tried, but I think at some point it makes sense to be honest with ourselves. There will be always some use cases - like collecting rewards, but the use cases are tiny, and the market doesn't really exist. There are few people that want to accept the truth that Curve hasn't really found its PMF. There are a lot of companies in this stage, exactly like this. I would still go for a chance to work at a startup, but don't expect extra-ordinary growth. (FYI) There is a slack group for ex-Curvers mostly dedicated to laughing at Shachar. My advice to anyone looking for a role is to seriously consider whether you can handle working in a fear-driven environment with a sociopathic leader, for not that much financial growth, but on the other hand, a decent learning experience. My performance (judged by myself alone) at Curve was really impacted by the negative impact on my mental health, and it can take a long time to get over that. I still did receive 3 payrises in the short time I was at Curve, and I went on to another company, and from day 1 I was flying, and feeling much better, even though the hours are longer, and the work is harder. I spent 20 weeks speaking with a therapist, which I paid for by myself. I'm finally writing this to offer advice, and two sides to anyone looking for a job here.

It's not for the faint-hearted. If you are looking for a 9-5 job to coast along in then this is not the place for you.

Low job security, cuts cause large scale redundancies