Good salary, bad company. - Anonymous employee 8fit Employee Review

1.0
14 May 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- most colleagues are great and care about their work and each other - HR team does its best to make everyone feel happy and engaged - nice office - urban sports club membership and food (1x a week lunch and free fruit)

Cons

Where to start...? - There is absolutely no direction. Most people are sitting in the office and don't know what they're supposed to do, losing all sense of motivation. If people aren't looking for new challenges then that's because the salaries the company pays are very nice. - Horrible communication and in-transparency from the top. One example of many: A few months ago the (now fired) CEO made a fiery speech about how our current product is losing money and is bad and not going to work out anymore and because of that we are going to make a new product and it's going to be amazing and exciting. Everyone was excited by this vague but exciting premise.... ... Fast forward a few months and nothing has happened. Well... the CEO got fired, but before that, and on the down-low, told selected teams that we are not going to be working on this new product after all. There was never an official communication about this change of, according to the leadership's presentation, company-changing plan to build a new product. Yikes. - Mass lay-offs and people (understandably) leaving the company on their own wish obviously don't help with overall morale and motivation.

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8fit Response
6y
Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm really sorry you experienced a difficult period here. We have certainly gotten much more direction and stability now. Thank you also for the kind words on the colleagues and HR, this remains I hope :)

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