Great team environment and collaboration - Anonymous employee BridgeU Employee Review

4.0
Feb 18, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's great working at BridgeU because it feels like a family. All teams/team members are willing to pitch in and help out each other, whether in the same team or across teams. A very open environment where every member of the company is welcome to bring up ideas or challenge management and can see their ideas put in place. People are willing to listen to others ideas and take action on them. There is a lot of job mobility, either through promotions or moving people across departments where they would be a better fit/asset for the company. Ability to work on different projects that interest you, whether it be working a new market, working on an internal project, or working in a collaborative way across teams

Cons

With any growing start-up, there is constant change as the company grows. Even though there is fairly good change management practices in place, sometimes not all changes get communicated across teams.

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1.0
Jun 13, 2025
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Pros

In its current guise, nothing.

Cons

During my time at BridgeU I have seen: - Most senior technical staff leave, averaging 1 per month. - Leadership U-turns are a regular occurrence. - A team sore from redundancies only to be met with more redundancies the next year. - A legacy application where trying to make any kind of change feels like herding cats. - An acquisition where most of what remained of the tech team was laid off despite reassurances that there would be long term engineering effort in the UK. On the acquisition... upon announcement we were informed that a strategic review was underway. This is code for "We're making redundancies". Our first meeting with the new CEO was a spectacle where he bragged about his business acumen. Shared how he had declined to buy a Ferrari so he could buy BU and complained that most of his new minions had their cameras off. Additionally, the current CEO spent 5 minutes sucking up to his new boss about how great the acquisition process was, especially since the new boss had just had a baby. Those of us who were worried about feeding our own children didn't appreciate it. Due to the political situation in the US and the recent announcements regarding immigration in the UK, this business probably has a limited lifespan. To my former colleagues in all areas of the business, get out as soon as you can.

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4.0
Nov 3, 2025
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Pros

Amazing culture, considerate, inclusive, kind, everything I thought didn't exist anymore in the corporate world.

Cons

Just a bad product with a lack of innovation due to limited funds I believe. I think the company was actually bought out after I left as it was really struggling. A shame as such brilliant people within the team.

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