A bizarre cult selling an MVP into a saturated market.. - Anonymous employee Staffbase Employee Review

2.0
27 May 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- A few nice opportunities to travel. - Some great team members. - Some good up to date systems for booking travel and expenses etc.

Cons

- Inexperienced and often directionless management. - Product looks, feels and behaves like something from the early iPhone 4 days - The usual brown nosing and who can speak loudest mentality prevails in gaining a promotion. - A lot of dead weight positions offering zero value... sales enablement comes to mind. - A concerning and almost erotic fascination with admin processes. You will often spend 80% of your day talking about Salesforce... - Non existent product integrations and functionality, you are essentially selling a dream. - The marketing is cringe at best and someone needs to tell leadership that they are not the 'first employee app' on the market. There are several Hundred others. - No one seems to know how to price the product. Its too expensive for the smaller companies, and too cheap for the larger ones. They seem to make it up on the spot.

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Staffbase Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review! We fully acknowledge your concerns, and while it's true that working at Staffbase can come with challenges, change is a constant with fast growing companies like Staffbase and there are certainly processes we can implement to do better. We know great managers are critical to our current and long term success, and we are dedicated to constantly improving in this area. We are currently working on leadership training initiatives such as interview training to enable managers to make more effective, data driven hiring decisions as well as working on restructuring how we do our feedback meetings (upwards feedback from team member to manager as well as peer to peer). Additionally, we are committed to providing our customers the best possible product. We do so by constantly iterating and rolling out new features to support the growing demand from our current customers and prospects. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors and always have an open door for open communication and further feedback. You can reach out to us via px@staffbase.com

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- Transparent, quick interview process - Helpful culture, quick growth possibilities

Cons

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Thank you for your review! We're glad to hear that you had a quick and smooth interview process and that you value our company culture.
5.0
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Pros

The people here have been such a highlight during my time at Staffbase. The company is full of driven, caring people, and our product is best in the industry, so it's easy to be proud of what we do. The company was founded in Germany so there's a lot of European values embedded in the company and benefits offered to employees (flexible schedules, 30 vacation days and Fridays off in August!). The vibe at work is energetic and ambitious - we are a 10 year old start up who's moved into "scale up" mode, so the growth mindset is still very much alive.

Cons

I can't think of many cons, but I will say it is a very global business, and that means I see most people working outside of typical 9-5 business hours. For some, I imagine that would be a deal breaker.

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Staffbase Response
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Thank you for your fantastic feedback! It's great to hear that you value our benefits, our working environment and team culture. And while we always welcome suggestions for improvement, we’ll take your few cons, that are more notes, with a grateful smile. Thanks again for being part of Staffbase — and for helping shape what’s next.
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