Alloyed Reviews

Hello I’m Michael, the CEO of the Company. This was an extremely painful review for me to read, obviously. While the discussions I have every single day with people up and down the Company convince me that we have a generally happy and productive team, even one person feeling she or he has been bullied is one too many, and I feel very bad about that. Two years ago, we conducted an acquisition of a new site and team a hundred miles away from our head office, and integrating the team into a business with as fast-paced a culture as Alloyed proved difficult, and we lost a small number of people who found the pace hard. On reflection, I didn’t intervene as fast as I should have done, and I suspect the circumstances behind this review were a result of that. As of today, I’m glad to say that those that are comfortable with the pace appear to be thriving. But we do need to take measures to make sure that our people management processes evolve as we grow, and that we make sure we listen more and more carefully for any signals which suggest everyone is not as content as they seem at first sight. We’re shortly to be instituting a quick anonymous welfare survey to make sure we catch issues early. The other thing we’ll do is use Glassdoor as a further anonymous feedback platform which we’ll encourage employees to post on, freely and honestly. I hope this will be the worst review we’ll ever get, but I’m sure we’ll learn more about what we can do better, and I look forward to that.