not your typical start-/scale-up - Anonymous employee Companjon Employee Review

5.0
May 9, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

you can play a part in growing a company, bring in your ideas, develop your respective functions, i.e. learn a lot "on the go" by thinking things through, and actually implement / do them, and do all that with a multinational, diverse and fun group of smart people. it's also "intellectually challenging and rigorous", i.e. you should enjoy solving problems and build arguments based on facts and reason, not on "oh, I've done that before". the remote work policy also is a plus - one week per month in the office, everyone at the same time, and three from wherever, allow for a good mix.

Cons

at the same time, the company is quite "mature" when it comes to governance (owed to the fact, that it's a regulated entity and owned by a large insurance company) - which makes it feel more "corporate" than you might expect from a company that size. can be intense, as workload tends to come in peaks and troughs, bcs. of external dependencies.

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4.0
Mar 24, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

People and the environment was nice.

Cons

Management was so out of touch with the reality of the company

2.0
Jul 4, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart, inclusive colleagues from diverse backgrounds who worked hard and had fun, even in a pressurised and toxic environment. Some of the executive team were incredible mentors and coaches, too. I really appreciated all of them, they kept me going near the end.

Cons

The company was a vanity project for the CEO who had no experience in tech or start-ups. You were only as good as the work you had done that day and mistakes threatened his ego. If you left the business and had won an award, your photo was removed from the wall.

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