Big ambitions. Nowhere near enough people. Poor work/life balance. - Senior Product Designer Awaze Employee Review

1.0
Aug 12, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

• People are nice enough and genuinely want to make a great product • Manchester offices are in an easy-to-reach location • A couple of perks (Perkbox and discounts on holidays)

Cons

• Mentality of a 'big fish', but without the time or people to be one • Still stuck in the mindset of being engineer-driven • Very long working hours at 100mph • Little room for career progression • Zero opportunity or time for personal development • Low morale from many of the longer-term employees

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Some delivery staff are pretty good. Zero meaningful governance. Platform and SecOps are a joke, do whatever you want. PII is freely available...

Cons

The company is owned by private equity who poured megabucks in and now want their money back, The main problem being tech management are staggeringly incompetent and the platform is still awful £10m+ later, they've squandered all the free money on contractor CV driven development and have nothing to show for it, and are now sacking people at random out of desperation. No meaningful product direction - I've worked with someone on 6 figures who contributed nothing bar asking chatGPT to get 2 tickets wrong... And that's all they contributed in 12 months... SecOps and Platform are non-entities vs reputable companies. Garbage antique platform. Owners hate the company Customers hate the company Inventory is garbage vs the competition, most of it looks like a 90s found footage slasher set and the one i did stay in gave me bedbugs.

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Awaze Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re sorry to hear that you left with a negative impression of your time at Awaze. We take allegations relating to security, governance and access to PII very seriously. Awaze has established policies, controls and processes in place to protect personal data, and we would encourage you to share specific details with us directly so that any concerns can be properly reviewed and investigated. Some of the details in your review do not align with how our teams and roles are currently structured, so it would be helpful to understand more about your experience and the areas you are referring to. We regularly communicate our product and technology priorities through functional updates and All Hands meetings, and we continue to invest in improving our platforms, ways of working and customer experience. As Europe’s largest managed vacation rentals business, we care deeply about the quality of our inventory and the experience of our guests, owners and colleagues. We’re sorry to hear that your personal experience did not reflect the standards we aim for, and we hope any concerns at the time were raised through the appropriate channels so they could be investigated. We would welcome the opportunity to discuss your comments in more detail. Please contact Fiona in the HR team so that we can look into the points you’ve raised.
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