Achievers Reviews

Pros

- Great culture. Values transparency, flexibility, people enjoy working with each other - Strong leadership team with long-term vision - Good mission, and trying to make an impact on building better leaders - High growth mode, so creating a lot of jobs, and gives employees mobility - Supports employees with good tools. Nice to see investment in replatforming and underlying infrastructure. - Fun work environment. Love the beer keg. - CEO really cares about employees. See him practicing what we preach and using our tools.

Cons

- Need to get clearer on product roadmap to allow developers to move faster - Really high growth, which is great, but starting to get tight in the Toronto office. Looking forward to the new building.

Pros

Great people, superb culture. A lot of opportunities to learn and fun events.

Cons

The biggest problem with Achievers is compensation. First of all, the payment rate is less than the average of the market. A lot of already left people hired with much higher salaries (a friend of mine who was a senior engineer and was receiving 85K at Achievers, hired with another company and now he is receiving 120K, and this is not the only case - I heard here and there similar stories). So I cannot understand what is wrong with matching payment with the market. Looks like they consider the lowest level of market standards, rather than average or highest. The second problem is, you should be hired at the right time, otherwise, it is next to impossible to receive a promotion. A co-worker told me he was rejected with the position of SW engineer (with less salary), and the same person 6 months later being hired as a senior SW engineer (with a higher salary)! There are a lot of engineers and senior engineers who are more deserved to be at a higher position, compared with some staff engineers hired recently. Looks like the management is more interested in new hires, rather than old employees who played a significant role in making Achievers a leader in the market. Promotions postpone again and again, and you should kill yourself to prove you deserve it, and yet there are people who are not as good as you, but they have higher positions and therefore receive a much higher salary.

Pros

Amazing coworker and exciting growth opportunities

Cons

Noisy work environment. Office is getting dated.

Pros

Physical space, teams, nice people overall

Cons

Toronto based New President no leadership, lack of vision and ability to build cohesive team; creates instability; clear with where to go, not able to make it happen. Dysfunctional leadership, no guidance, unrealistic assessment of needs and people to do it.