A vibey mess - Anonymous employee Wonderbly Employee Review

1.0
Feb 6, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice offices with good facilities Good vibes if you drink the Kool-Aid

Cons

Wonderbly pride themselves on doing a lot with a little. Impressive, until all your underpaid junior to mid level employees are burning themselves out trying to achieve goals that constantly change with minimal communication. The CEO is a liability. Feels like there's a clean-up operation every time he opens his mouth in front of his people. Two sides to this: on one hand, he wants to be everyone's buddy and bring the vibes. Yaaaay! Shots! On the other, he shows mockery and open contempt for his staff when they express concerns about (eg) return to office, doomed product launches, health & safety, a documented culture of sexism, and so on. Middle managers (Heads of / VP) are often glorified administrators for their superiors in the C suite. Especially if female. It's been mentioned in other reviews that there is one exec who is a known bully. If you raise a concern about this you're told he's a "necessary evil". How we laugh! If there have ever been consequences for his direct harassment of female and minority ethnic individuals, racist and misogynistic comments and generally sh*tty behaviour, they're a better kept secret than the behaviours themselves. If this business gains the B-Corp accreditation it's been devoting so much time and effort to, it says more about the credibility of B-Corp than it does about Wonderbly.

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2.0
Feb 15, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Cool product - Creative coworkers - Flexible working: any time start / end as long as you're working during core hours (10-4) and 5 weeks remote work per year - Great location with good lunch options nearby - Great values (if they stick to them)

Cons

- 2 rounds of redundancies in 2 years: employees bare the burden of failing strategy while C-suite level execs continue making bad decisions & keep their jobs and comfy salaries. - Unprofessional at times: lack of process overall (and still no real HR), senior leads disclosing things they shouldn't be, poor communication over big projects meaning the people that need to know things are often left in the dark. - Low salaries - No real career development - left to DIY with a Learnably budget and no support - Immense workloads: middle managers bare a large amount of execution work as well as wider strategic thinking

5.0
Feb 24, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

wonderful people, great environment and exciting projects

Cons

Lots of regular meetings and check ins

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