Meh - Software Developer Heyday AI Employee Review

3.0
6 Oct 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Interesting product and technology. - Good base salary. - Competent technical management. - Some nice plants in the office.

Cons

- You're expected to work nights and weekends without overtime pay, which is illegal in Quebec, but they don't explicitly ask you to work overtime, just that you "take responsibility for the project", for which there is no room to budge on the timeline or scope, and nobody is going to help you get it done. Then they tell you explicitly to work overtime without pay, but don't worry, everyone is very nice about it, except when they deride you in meetings for being behind schedule. - Stock options are more of a mirage than anything; they won't put anything in writing, and they'll work you like a dog from your third week, but it will take them 3 months to figure if you're even going to be eligible for options. Then it may take up to 6 months before they get around to starting the clock on your one-year cliff, at which point you'll only be 12 months away from vesting 25% of what they promised you (the right to buy stock in the company at the price it was when you joined, which they don't tell you), except that the company only has enough funding to last it maybe another 8 months, and you'll be thinking about leaving within 2 months.

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Heyday AI Response
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Dear Former Employee, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We understand your point about our Stock Options Plan. Clearly, we have room for improvement regarding the communication around this. This is something we are working on to make sure that all our people understand how it works and how it is beneficial to everyone one of us. We don’t want to make an excuse out of it, but that’s true that with the recent and still ongoing huge growth of the company, they are some things that might fall thought the cracks temporarily :/ However, we’d like to emphasize the fact that we are proud to be a well-funded company and that offering stock options to every employee is extremely important for us! On another note, as a fast-growing start-up we also understand this type of atmosphere and work environment may suit some more than others. Teamwork and delivering high-quality product on-time for our clients are some of our top priorities and our clients’ satisfaction is our reward ;) But we remain sorry you did not feel like you had a good work experience here. That being said, we wish you luck in your future endeavors. Should you wish to elaborate on what could have helped you excel more in your role at Heyday, feel free to reach out to our Head of Talent & Culture at jessie@heyday.ai.

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