Great start, great team - Manager Nala Employee Review

* Awesome mission: To reduce cross-border payment times and fees for Africa (mostly) - and still make a profit * An open and honest culture. Great people team. * Fun social activities to get people talking across departments. * Engineering: Only hire senior software engineers (use Claude to do the grunt-coding work).

* Quite a few managers left in 2025 and I don't know why. * Round of layoffs late in 2025.

NALA is a growing start-up / scale up, this comes with growing pains, learning opportunities and sometimes ambiguity. For the right person, with the right mentality, who values growth, ownership, intensity and hard work, it's an amazing place to be. A few years here will accelerate your career. This type of environment won't be right for everyone, but the exposure to execs, the opportunity to contribute and shape the direction of the product/company is massive

Sometimes their is ambiguity / uncertainty around projects or initiatives at the company. This can feel a little paralysing and some people won't enjoy that. As such, the pace of change can feel frantic as the company evolves from this 0-1 to 1 - 10 phase. As a small, young business the benefits are not amazing, but compensation is good.