efood Reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(262 total reviews)

51% positive business outlook

efood has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 262 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The efood employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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262 reviews
1.0
28 Feb 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great pay Great handling of the whole COVID situation Technically strong teams with mostly up to date tech and interesting challenges

Cons

My experience in efood was awful. I'll try to explain why briefly. * Lack of respect. People form biases instantly and publicly call out others with their mistakes, using irony and sometimes even bullying. * Blame culture. I've never felt such a divided company internally. It's "us" and "them" all the time. Blame is literally flying all around. * Key people consider their work as just "coding", when every person in managerial positions should understand that their impact should expand miles beyond that. * Zero investment in onboarding. Literally. Zero. * Zero investment in asking for / listening to feedback. My opinion was never asked for. * Key people are "swamped" all the time and there's no culture of passing on knowledge. The whole approach is that you'll be banging your head on your own and jumping through hoops until you are considered "worthy enough". Asking for help is considered a sign of weakness. * Even though engineering is definitely its strong suit, there are also bad engineering practices. Big emphasis on performance, poor to non-existent documentation. A lot of systems are hanging by a thread (or a person). * A culture of secrecy. Chats are mainly secret, stakeholders discourage developers to talk to Product (business), even thought business would really like it and tries to do that. Even inside engineering, until you are proven "worthy" by some criteria that you don't know of, you are excluded out of everything interesting and left to do meaningless work. There's some people in efood trying to change things. However, I truly doubt that this will be effective given the culture that already exists there (and HR's inability to change it). Since I left the company I know of at least 3-4 engineers that have left as well, with the same feedback. I believe more will follow. Bear in mind. As far as I know not all of those apply to all of the teams. Also, even within my team there were people that didn't follow this behavior and were extremely professional. But the fact that there are such wild cultural differences among people and teams and that HR isn't able to resolve this makes me think poorly of the company in general. If you want my advice, don't be mislead by the great salaries and HR's "every day is different in efood" quotes. Skip this, go work somewhere else. There's tons of options that are extremely better.

1.0
11 Sept 2020

A career trap for skilled people

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Payments always on time - Private insurance - Gym - Nice building

Cons

Things have been getting worse since the company grew over 150 people, and especially over the past year. What used to be a team of friends working together is now a house of cards made of managers (C-levels or their friends), trying to maintain the status quo in order to serve their personal vested interests. The other employees (especially those without personal relationships with management) are treated like garbage and are never given opportunities to grow and advance their career. The brand name is strong, so it is easy to attract new and skilled employees from other companies. However, these people are never given an opportunity to prove their worth. All interesting work is done by the inner circle of seniors, while the rest are left with meaningless tasks. Raises, bonuses and vesting options are only reserved for the select few that do the dirty work without complaining. The newly hired employees are offered much higher salaries than experienced people that have been with the company for years, regardless of actual skills. Everyone with an opinion is either ignored and bullied, or shot down / fired when they start becoming a threat. The 'agile' ways of working have turned into a joke, due to the actions of some arrogant and ambitious 'coaches' over the last year that are as agile as concrete. These people are using old and trusted methods like divide and conquer, bullying, extortion, death by JIRA, gaslighting and constant team changes to keep everyone in line. They are typically setting up people for fail so that when their subordinates actually fail to meet any vague expectations (according to their ultimate judgement), they can appear as saviors delivering solutions and saving the ship from sinking. People receive no actual, actionable feedback about their performance, just rants and public shaming when something goes wrong. The morale is extremely low and a number of people have happily left or are seeking employment elsewhere. The CEOs are powerless - their vision (if any) and priorities are never communicated to the people actually doing the work, and it seems like they let others run the show. HR is aware of the problems but has failed to take any action in addressing the complaints of employees, even when serious incidents like bullying attacks from sociopath managers are reported. They are more concerned with keeping employee engagement ratings high and stuff like Best Places to work awards (sic) or throwing pizza parties. Not to mention 'anonymous' employee surveys that mysteriously end up with private meetings / interviews with HR regarding how they view their place in the company.

2.0
28 Feb 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Company is healthy in terms of financial stability - Salary

Cons

- Lack of Leadership. - Lack of Vision. - No team working. Individual contributors working in silos. Therefore no documentation, no peer Reviews, no commit messages. - Zero trust policy, especially with new members joining the team. - Blame Game. Engineers are being separated and discriminated to the ones working and the ones not working enough - No respect. Fellow coworker, being talked down publicly by senior management. - Turnover ratio under the Tech department, is very high. People are being hired and resigning by themselves after 2-5 months . - No opportunity to grow as a person and professional under this environment. A really difficult place to work for. Better look for another opportunity

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