Pros
- Bare minimum of what you can expect from a startup nowadays.
Cons
- bad salaries if you are not working in the european offices. Good luck trying to negotiate a raise, - as if an individual had power to negotiate a fair deal with a company - even if you are working twice as hard as when you were hired.
Salary offers appear the be done according to the country you are working from and how management can be impressed - or fooled - by your pitch. Be prepared to find people in European offices making much more than you for the same work. C level will be saying that the company is very diverse and has workers from a variety of countries. I guess paying people living in places other than Lisbon and London less than their peers is an easy way of achieving that.
- C level are not keen to answer concerns from employees. Those are met with the usual "go talk to your line manager", failing to realize people are not comfortable talking to their managers or do not think the manager can do anything about it, otherwise they would not be in need to take the problems to higher ranks. Maybe that would not be the case if they did not hire so many new people as managers, instead of promoting people that everybody already like, trust and respect.
They do hold monthly meetings where anyone can ask questions, just not any type of questions. The questions have to be about the business, otherwise they will call it "escalation", get mad and - you know it - advise to talk to your manager, as said above. Probably because of that people feel discouraged to ask anything at all in those meetings.
They used to hold anonymous Q & As in these monthly meetings, but even that was scratched out lately. If you are working there I recommend you post your anonymous reviews here, since they seem scared of answering in the meetings.
- I cannot stress this enough, promotions and good payment raises are extremely rare if you are not working in the European offices - maybe even if you are, when talking about raises. C level are very eager to say they are hiring in social media, along with the usual humble bragging that they do on LinkedIn, - Marketers, right?! - but not so much to retain talents they already have.
- No extra payment for extra work, as many have been experiencing lately with the new initiatives, even with the company growing exponentially year to year. This was mentioned in one of the monthly meetings. The last CTO, who - guess what - also left the company for something better, just dismissed it as unimportant.
- To wrap it up, Moteefe is not different from any other company, where you are expected to work hard and keep you mouth shut, even if C level like to think they are. You will get tired eventually and seek for better paying jobs and opportunities elsewhere. You will rarely see an employee with 3 years or more working for the company, - unless it is a department manager or lost their will to do better already - as many leave and many get onboard every couple of months. C level will just dismiss that as unimportant anyway.
Lastly, if steps are taken to correct these injustices while I'm still working there I will gladly delete this review and write a new positive one acknowledging the efforts to make it a better place to work.