CAFU Reviews

While flexible working and working from home are meant to be beneficial, it has led to a no work-life balance environment; you are expected to be answerable to the supervisor at all times. Most managers are working overtime, even on public holidays, sick leaves and annual leaves. Everything is "urgent" and once the work is done, it takes weeks to review it. My supervisor was a micro-manager and left no space for creativity and everything I did was criticised. Voicing my concerns to HR did not help either, I was moved abruptly to another department which did not align with my career goals and had little relevance to my skills. Don't expect to work according to the job description provided, the real role is far away from that.

1. there is no structure/strategy everyone is constantly firefighting. no one likes to plan in advance and develop a step by step action plan, instead it is last minute changes with a justification "we are a startup, that's how things are". All the unnecessary stress could have been avoided if things were planned ahead and "management" would be supportive of people. 2. Constant stress. if you are into stressing out about things that are meant to be under you control, but are not - you are in a right place. There is no work culture or work/life balance. It is normal to be called on Friday and demanded you drop everything and fix whatever it is right away. Reasoning as a day off are brushed off with an argument "yes, but this will kill everything if we don't fix it now". More often than not, the object of fixing doesn't need immediate attention. 3. you will learn an art of public speaking and corporate culture if you wanna thrive - you need to learn how to survive. Few individuals actually do what they say at this company. More often, its the oposite. Lots of ideas, lots of talk about how great the ideas are. But no one actually wants to execute those ideas. Or if they do, its backwards and low quality effort under the pretence of "it needs to be done yesterday". Any reasoning of quality, work/life balance, need for resources are usually dismissed.