Wonderful team, inspiring work, dedicated company - Anonymous employee Farmigo Employee Review

5.0
Apr 27, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- The team. The individuals who work at Farmigo are dedicated, passionate, and hard working. This is everyone from the warehouse to the customer support team, design, engineers, and exec. - The benefits. They aren't perfect, but the healthcare we are offered is quite good, and the discount on groceries has significantly increased my weekly income. - Transparency. I think this is always a work in progress, but I do believe this company (the exec team in particular) are keen to be as transparent as possible. The CEO has "Ask Me Anything" meetings with departments, and each week answers questions during the all-team call that are anonymously sent. They are often quite difficult, and he answers them openly and honestly. - It's a smart start-up. I've worked at other start-ups in the past, and so often have seen them grow too fast, spend too much money, and then terminate a bunch of people or go under. This company is thrifty (some may see that as a Con), and are doing what they can to succeed. - They care about the people. We all worked really long, hard hours. That's the nature of a start-up, but the team also celebrated and enjoyed each other. We had potlucks, office parties, swag, birthday gifts, etc.

Cons

- Communication between regions and different departments needs to improve. It's the hardest problem to solve, and often becomes over looked because of the nature of a busy start-up, but if this isn't addressed soon, i do worry about attrition or a lost opportunity to really unite ideas and strengthen communication.

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5.0
Apr 27, 2016
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Pros

* Farmigo employees are enthralled by the mission and come together to create a better food system. * Open communication and transparency is deeply encourage and respected across teams and management. * The team represents a diverse and fresh culture where ideation and key decision-making germinates from all points of the organization.

Cons

* Team is continually growing and bringing in new talent.

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2.0
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Pros

The office at Farmigo feels more like a coffeehouse than a corporate environment. Makes it a nice place to work each day. Team members are always willing to hangout during the day and vent about their workloads. Employee discount on groceries is a huge plus.

Cons

One of the main concerns that I have about Farmigo is the transparency about the future of the business. We were told that we had raised another round of venture backing in June, but there hasn't been any press or media coverage to confirm this. Usually when startups raise another round, they want people to know so as to prove that the company is on the right track. We are also expanding into a new market with Seattle before we have mastered how we do what we do in New York and Berkeley. The other issue with Farmigo is the pay is pretty lousy. Normally this expected at a startup, but we aren't even offered performance related bonuses. It feels like Farmigo wants you to burnout and will then replace you.

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