Questionable and unbalanced - Anonymous employee Ably Employee Review

Thanks for your review. While we find it hard to read and do disagree with most of it, we can feel the weight of your words and cannot dispute the experience you felt you had - that we will acknowledge and apologise for. We never want anyone to have a bad experience at Ably. I hope in the three years you’ve been with us, you felt there were times you were able to grow and have enjoyed being a part of the Ably team. You touch on a few delicate topics there that we do need to address. The first one is in relation to our finances. Your comments imply that Ably has spent money frivolously and that poor financial decisions have led to the business having to make difficult decisions - this is not accurate. As a rapidly scaling business it has absolutely been necessary for us to invest in our growth - we have always operated under the principle of frugality and this investment has been in line with recognised industry benchmarks for companies in our phase of growth. The reality is that macro economic conditions have changed in the past 12 months - that’s not an attempt to abdicate responsibility, but leadership has an obligation to react to those changes to safeguard the future of the business. The next point we’d like to address is in reference to a “white boys club” - this again is not fair. We have a steadfast commitment to diversity at Ably and the proportion of Ablyans from underrepresented groups is well above the industry standard, both at leadership level and across the entire team. We always endeavour to do better and improve ourselves, and we’d welcome the opportunity to discuss your concerns in more detail and provide additional clarity on our decision making processes - please reach out if you’re still in the team with us on Slack, otherwise you can reach out to someone in the People Team via email.