Great culture but growth pains to manage - Anonymous employee Freetrade Employee Review

4.0
17 Feb 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There is a great camaraderie between people without any obvious egos leading critical decisions on projects. I work in the Product / Engineering / Design space, and we're divvied up into different product areas within the app itself. This gives a fair amount of ownership to dive deep, even if it is narrower than you might expect.

Cons

The company has tripled in size within the last 12 months (now over 300), and as such they don't yet have the types of processes nailed down you would normally expect of a company this size. What that means is there are a considerable amount of projects that have been started but are shelved for newer priorities. This is a fairly normal behaviour, but happens more often at Freetrade than in my previous experience. Cross-team projects can also be a bit complex. With each team narrowly focused in their area of the app, a project that touches multiple areas (e.g. onboarding, investing, pensions) can disrupt OKRs and create frustration in Product Managers. This is starting to create silos where some teams look to deliver the minimum amount of work for cross-team projects so they can focus on their own priorities (sometimes unintentionally at the detriment of the wider customer experience).

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5.0
18 Aug 2021
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Pros

This company has very good benefits that take care of employees.

Cons

I do not have any cons for working at this company.

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1.0
17 Feb 2026
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Pros

You get to work on some cool tech in rapidly evolving space

Cons

The departure of Adam Doods was the best thing that happened to the company. However, the toxicity he surrounded himself would not go away. Adam build a culture of blame, while taking all wins for himself. Kind of a boss you never want to succeed because it makes world a worse place. I can not imaging any company that could succeed like that. It is getting better. Good riddance.

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