Paid to say what they say - Anonymous employee Adlens Employee Review

2.0
Dec 13, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

As a former employee and still having a lot of friends there I find it laughable about some of the reviews on here. Having been told that the CPO who is a (consultant not an employee) offering the staff a £5 donation to a charity to write a good review is ridiculous. The CEO offering the woman working there a book on how to empower themselves at work is quite a odd thing to be doing in this day and age. I enjoy my time there apart from the last year and made a lot of friends there

Cons

Not so great Management, who are looking out for themselves.

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Adlens Response
7y
Thanks for your review. We gave to Save the Children to encourage all employees to do a Glassdoor review. We are a growing, fast changing business and the reviews, both good and bad, help to keep us on our toes and give potential new recruits a good insight into our business. We absolutely do want people to enjoy working here and we would always encourage anyone who does not feel they are being fairly treated to talk with their manager or John Kennedy our CEO directly so we can help sort it

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5.0
Sep 13, 2018
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Pros

It is exciting to work for a company that is paving a path to new technologies. I have worked for a number of top name technology companies much larger than Adlens and find Adlens to be a better culture and atmosphere than all the large companies I have worked for. I find the company has a great work life balance and good benefits.

Cons

I don't have any cons at this point.

2.0
Sep 18, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company has great products and is trying to change the optical industry for the better but unfortunately they don't have enough credibility. There have been so many other companies who have tried and failed when creating a similar product and if Adlens wants any credibility moving forward they're going to have to think outside the box.

Cons

Adlens has a great product but they are trying to move too fast because they're excited. They need to slow down. This is a new product (which has been tried by other companies and failed) so it needs to stand out and differentiate themselves from the similar products who have been introduced to the market before.

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Adlens Response
7y
There’s been a huge change at Adlens in the past 18 months – we’re still committed to the original purpose of using the power of technology to help people see, but a new team have come in (I’m ex MOO, Green & Blacks, Richard worked on the 2012 Olympics and Sian’s from Dyson & Xerox). The culture is transformed, we’re working with some of the biggest names in AR/VR world and also developing cutting edge glasses. Come and see for yourself – we need we need talented creators to work on both augmented reality and variable focus glasses. John (the CEO)
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