Lemon.io Reviews

4.8

99% would recommend to a friend

(68 total reviews)

94% positive business outlook

Lemon.io has an employee rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars, based on 68 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Lemon.io employee rating is 25% above average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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68 reviews
1.0
2 Mar 2023

Company in a slow decline

Anonymous employee
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Pros

This company once had a great culture, still a lot of great people and professionals left in the company

Cons

They don't care about people who work for them. Co-founders and people around them have created an echo-chamber that supresses objective feedback, doesn't stop the CEO from really bad decisions and everyone who speaks up ends up fired. They started firing inconvenient people last year, lost several employees who actually had a huge impact on the growth and lost 30% of their revenue as a result. In the end, CEO started doing marketing and after a few months decided to fire almost the entire marketing department that actually helped get the revenue and helped the company to live through the bad times. The only people left to do marketing in the company is the CEO himself, another co-founder's wife and one other person who contributed little but "stayed aligned with the culture". The employees that got cut didn't know that something was wrong until their termination was announced in 1 day. The CEO then bragged about his decision to cut 10% of the company even though they all were top-performers and the company isn't struggling financially. They also underpay their employees. Company has a strict policy of not discussing salaries, but not a single person there gets paid what they would be offered in another company.

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Lemon.io Response
3y
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, but your feedback is a bit misleading. We lost 30% of revenue in Q3 2022 and fired a few employees only in Q1 of 2023. Unfortunately, the projects where the people were fired didn’t help us grow and we would not keep investing there. We tried to make it work for a long time, but in the end, we could not risk the jobs of the rest 62 employees and had to make an unpopular decision. We focused on what’s working and this helped us start growing again.
5.0
30 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The main pro is that company offers a lot of flexibility, The pool of projects is big enough for u to pick one to you liking - part/full time, tech stack, workflow and etc. Besides, Lemon secures your work. In relations with client, if conflict situation arises, they try to give an independent evaluation of course, but I would say slightly more on dev's side. They do value their employees and understand their importance as assets. This is rare when working as a freelancer.

Cons

I don't see significant cons for myself. I imagine for someone who is just starting their career it might be hard to enter, you don't get much guidance or mentorship on projects, but have to figure everything out on your own instead

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Lemon.io Response
5y
Thank you so much for the review!
5.0
28 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Easy to start - No overhead bureaucracy - Wide range of projects

Cons

- Payments through Payoneer, meaning -2% for transferring money to personal account - No accountant to help with taxes

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Lemon.io Response
4y
Thank you for such detailed and profound feedback! We've been doing our best to eradicate all the unnecessary and cumbersome bureaucracy in all the processes — and we're glad it's visible. Alas, Payoneer remains our key payment system and we can't eliminate the 2% tax for money transfer (that's the amount Payoneer takes for every transfer) — but it ensures safe and timely transactions, and that's a big argument for sticking to it in the future because everyone wants to get their money on time. Per the accountants' absence — unfortunately, we're not planning to hire separate tax accountants for our developers, but you can always ask for our advice. We'll gladly counsel you on that matter.
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