Great people and office, but poor management direction - Software Engineer Botpress Employee Review

1.0
1 Jul 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- The people are great. - The office is beautiful, in a great location. - The backend architecture is a piece of beauty.

Cons

- Hired aggressively for 5 months only to layoff 40 people overnight with no warning. - Management is huge. The company has a vast amount of VPs/Heads for a small company. - There is hardly a global direction to push towards, as much as "displace marketshare" is great. There was horrible vision into company direction which made leading difficult. - The red tape is also a big problem

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1.0
24 Aug 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company has friendly people, decent pay

Cons

Very immature leadership. They were hiring like crazy shortly before laying off over 35% of their employees. Nobody saw it coming except the exec team, who apparently didn't mind firing 35% of their employees if things go wrong, especially the new joiners. Transparency is definitely not one of their values. Join this company only while continuing to look elsewhere

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3.0
17 Aug 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

company is headed in a good direction

Cons

Leadership can backseat drive a bit.

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