Bolt Reviews

At Bolt, there's a clear divide—two classes, really—with Eastern Europeans on one side, and everyone else on the other. The Eastern Europeans, they stick together, exchanging gossip on Telegram, plotting against the rest. They're intense about it, clearly feeling under threat, worried this job is their best shot in Eastern Europe. I get where they're coming from, but this dynamic? It's dragging the whole company down, causing some of the best talent to leave. The whole "customer first" mantra at Bolt? It's just lip service. Nobody there takes it seriously. And the communication between people? The worst. And during the interview process? They'll promise you everything, but once you're in, they deliver on nothing. There's a lot of inauthenticity at Bolt—people saying things that just aren't true, left and right. But if you speak Russian and are part of the “in” group, hey maybe you can make a few dollars and lift yourself out of poverty. Good for you. Everyone else, stay away.

The company hires employees for new personalities not to solve the company's tasks, but because other companies have such positions. All correspondence in messengers, including private messages, is inspected by management. There is no concept of confidentiality. HR employees easily share personal information about other employees not only with management, but also with other companies. The company dismisses competent employees who point to existing problems in the company, giving preference to incompetent employees who do not give anything useful, but are friends with senior management. While I was working here, several good engineers was suddenly fired, and no one knows where are they and what happened. But we knew, that they was asking question, really good and important questions.