Trial and Error - Anonymous employee AfterShip Employee Review

1.0
Mar 25, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Smart, friendly colleagues, major reason why people stick around Good office space

Cons

Trial and error approach to management, without a long-term product vision. Teams are formed and broken up repeatedly. Trial and error approach to hiring, the company repeatedly hires people and employees during their probation period. Even passing the probation period is no guarantee, as management changes their approach every few months. Employee viewpoints are hardly ever regarded and the product development process is run like a factory. Quality is repeatedly neglected and all prioritization is put towards delivery. A single day delay in delivery to meet an internal deadline for any reason is deemed unacceptable. This does not work for software development. Those who work directly with management are treated very poorly.

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AfterShip Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We have brought onboard Head of People (HR) who is working closely with Head of Engineering to update our recruitment processes and have put in additional resources towards retention and sustainable recruitment. Quality and employee satisfaction are important to us. We have collected a lot of feedback, implemented some quick-wins and looking forward to continuously improving. We have invested heavily in adopting and running scrum methodologies which means we work as a team and are able to plan ahead, everyone contributes towards sprint planning, meeting sprint goals and delivering every 2 weeks - priorities, timeline and deliverables are determined by the team members themselves so that expectations are managed as best as possible from the beginning. This also encourages closer collaboration between team members, for example, engineers working very closely with designers as well as product owners. We have also grown our leadership team to cater the needs of our ~50 staff members across different locations. For example, the leadership team now includes Product Owners, Head of Engineering, Head of People (HR) and Scrum Master (to name a few).

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