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Found 27 of over 28 reviews
3.1
51% Recommend to a Friend
TOPIC Owner and CEO Rieny Rijnen
71% Approve of CEO

Found 20 of over 28 reviews

3.1
51%
Recommend to a Friend
71%
Approve of CEO
TOPIC Owner and CEO Rieny Rijnen
Rieny Rijnen
13 Ratings
  1. 3.0
    Former Employee, more than 1 year

    Brick on the wall

    20 Dec 2022 - Software Designer in Eindhoven
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Quite difficult to have real connections, taking responsibilities. They have a nice office, but the company structure is not really making it possible to success.

    Cons

    Chance to work on different companies, industries

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    TOPIC Response

    Marketing Communications Coordinator

    Thanks for your review. We are always open for feedback as we continuously want to improve. Please feel free to contact us directly to have an open conversation.

  2. 5.0
    Current Employee, less than 1 year

    Family feeling and challenging assignments

    28 Apr 2022 - Software Engineer in Best
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Permanent contract. Possibility to stay in VIP (if no assignment found). Wide range of clients that allows to choose from several assignments. Personal coach. Open to initiatives. Plenty of get-together events.

    Cons

    Not transparent profit sharing .

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  4. 4.0
    Current Employee

    Working at TOPic

    18 Feb 2022 - Anonymous Employee 
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    good environment and friendly colleagues

    Cons

    not much chance for big project and to become a leadership team member

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  5. 2.0
    Former Employee, more than 1 year

    Your way out of 3rd world country

    26 Apr 2021 - Software Engineer in Eindhoven
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    - Easy to get in. - They help you with relocation and provide long-term contract, so you can get out of your 3rd world country and start your career in Europe. - A lot of nice and sweet colleagues.

    Cons

    The employee is seen as a cash cow, not a co-worker.

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    3 people found this review helpful
  6. 1.0
    Current Employee, more than 3 years

    Pathetic

    29 Apr 2021 - Senior Software Engineer in Best
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Easy to get in. Good office space

    Cons

    If you leave the company you get harassment mail from them. Don't join. They have reputation in lawyers office

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    1 person found this review helpful
  7. 4.0
    Current Employee

    Good

    15 Mar 2021 - QA Engineer in Amsterdam
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Great and fun working environment

    Cons

    None for me as of now

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  8. 3.0
    Current Employee

    There are better agency/ consultancy out there

    30 Jan 2021 - Software Engineer in Eindhoven
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Training Budget. Coached by a business manager.

    Cons

    No profit sharing. Small salary rise.

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  9. 1.0
    Former Employee

    Exploitative and manipulative

    16 Oct 2020 - Software Engineer in Eindhoven
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Mostly good colleagues, front office ladies are great, office location is nice

    Cons

    Exploit people who want to move to Europe, manipulate people into positions (or to stay in positions) they do not want, too much spent on office, office is open plan.

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    2 people found this review helpful
  10. 1.0
    Current Employee, less than 1 year

    stay away from bottomic

    9 Mar 2020 - Software Development Engineer in Eindhoven
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Nice coffee machine friendly staff friendly expat employee

    Cons

    Bad recruitment and contract management. "Topic" can not earn money from engineering so they are trying to earn money from consultancy. However, they are doing it in very unprofessional way. They will put you in a waiting lounge and you will have interviews with client companies meanwhile. The problem is that during this duration, you will be exposed with hysterical and unstable behaviour of managers. Recruiter manager is coming from hotel industry and humilates people and exaggerates evertyhing. he other weird manager calls himself both technical and contract manager. He messes up everything blames and yells you when the interview is not ok. The other business managers are one day good one day bad. Very neurotic and unstable company. They even dont pay your flight ticket costs telling you it will be amortized in 3 years.

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    2 people found this review helpful
  11. 2.0
    Former Employee, more than 1 year

    A sham(e)

    13 Oct 2017 - Software Engineer in Best
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    In the beginning you get all the attention and it feels like a warm bath. A lot is organized but if you don't get an assignment quickly or at one time you'll have no project, it starts emmercing

    Cons

    I received an excellent review from my project manager at the external client but internally only a 'good'. Their rating system is shady. You don't have a choice where you want to work. Your business manager decides. They switch you easily between external and internal projects.

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    1 person found this review helpful
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TOPIC has an overall rating of 3.1 out of 5, based on over 28 reviews left anonymously by employees. 51% of employees would recommend working at TOPIC to a friend and 52% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -10% over the last 12 months.

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, TOPIC employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at TOPIC. This rating has decreased by -6% over the last 12 months.

51% of TOPIC employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated TOPIC 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.4 for culture and values and 3.0 for career opportunities.

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