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1.0
7 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- "Flexible" working options - Free fruit/chocolate

Cons

- Extremely bureaucratic environment for such an early stage start up - Favouritism - Founders lack direction and vision for the company - Judgemental environment - Beware of making mistakes / asking for help - Little opportunity for personal growth / development - Not somewhere to work long-term

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OurPath Response
7y
This team member unfortunately did not pass their probation. We’ve never quite had an exit interview like we did with this person. We were called every name under the sun and they even demanded a ‘pay out’ to keep quiet. I’m not even really sure what they needed to be kept quiet about. Sometimes probations don’t work out. This sucks and it should never happen. But sometimes it does. We have a high performance team that gives people large amounts of responsibility and autonomy. If someone is inexperienced and not self-driven, then our environment is not right for them. We should have picked this up in the hiring stage, so that’s on us. Anyone looking to come work for us has an opportunity to meet with a few people on our team outside of the interview process and ask the real questions. I’d encourage anyone thinking of working for us to use that opportunity wisely. Feel free to ask them if they feel like we’re bureaucratic, judgemental, or lack vision. Here’s a link to our latest (anonymous) team survey: https://www.dropbox.com/s/groj6d4hw77flje/OurPath-Survey.png?dl=0 Chris (OurPath CEO)

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Pros

- Everyone on the team is united by the mission. I think this is really powerful and makes it easy (in a sense) to make decisions about the company and the product - we genuinely want what is best for our users. - Thing here move quickly and change regularly! This is something I find exciting but others might find stressful. - Having working arrangement flexibility is really nice - people work from home / remotely regularly and no one is weird about it. - It's a fun place to work! The team gets along well and everyone is really talented and motivated.

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For me there aren't any, but as with any growing start-up you need to be able to handle the fact that it's a fast-paced working environment and things might be a bit stressful.

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1.0
29 Aug 2019
Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

- Product does positively impact people's lives - Lots of smart, highly capable and friendly people

Cons

- Such a shame for a start up to be such a political environment to work in. - Whilst constant change is expected in a start up, the underlying strategy to achieve the business vision is lacking. - The founders both struggle to listen to others (apart from a select few). They also both have very particular ways of doing things. - Bit of a fear / blame culture where you are judged daily without constructive feedback. They struggle to 'assume good intent' of people. - Deadly silent office as that is the founders preferred way of working - again, not what you expect from a start up. - The founders take everything quite personally, so they sometimes react with emotion without thinking rationally.

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OurPath Response
6y
Thanks for your feedback! I agree, it’s always a bit of a challenge trying to go from “founders doing it all themselves” - to building a team where we can’t anymore. Basically, learning to let go! We’re making strides to address this though and have moved a lot of responsibility on to our team leads which has been working out great. Startups are also stressful - so we’ve absolutely hear you on taking things personally. It’s tricky when you’ve built “your baby” not to take things personally - but we’ve both started working with a coach to help balance this out, as well as seeking as much feedback as possible from our team. We wish you all the best for the future. Chris - CEO
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