Very okay - Anonymous employee HiBob Employee Review

Working in the US for an organization that is based in Israel is challenging. The timezone differences, cultural differences, communication differences, language differences, lifestyle differences, HR industry/market differences, etc. make the day-to-day operations and practice difficult. I underestimated this when I joined but feel the effects of this everyday. I’ve been here for a few years, and I liked the culture and organization exceptionally more two+ years ago than I do now. It is becoming very bureaucratic and very corporate-like, but leadership wants you to feel like you’re still in a startup. It’s not working and it’s very confusing. The pay and benefits are those still of a small startup, not of a global tech company with millions of fresh funding in the bank: Limited PTO, insignificant 401k contributions, little to no annual merit increases (despite soaring cost of living and inflation), limited parental leave, no professional development stipend for further education or professional association involvement, just to name a few. I have friends who work for much smaller companies whose benefits are significantly better than HiBob’s. Colleagues will be terminated and you won’t know until you try to Slack or email them. Leadership is mum about it unless you ask, and even then it’s very cryptic. They proclaim no layoffs, and then there are layoffs. The org is constantly reorganizing. All of this doesn’t give you the best sense of job security. They host webinars and spark initiatives about DEI, pay transparency, 4 day work weeks (just to name a few examples)…yet, internally, there isn’t much shared nor implemented here. You will get at least one email a day about a new process or new product feature (not an exaggeration), which you are expected to understand and execute fully on right away. If you don’t, you get slapped on the wrist. They are going through so much change that it’s impossible to keep up with. TLDR: HiBob talks the talk but it isn’t necessarily walking the walk. For a company that preaches all about HR Best Practices, we don’t see them actually in play in the organization.