OV-099 - Software Developer Xplor Technologies Employee Review

2.0
Nov 24, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is a forward thinking attitude towards working remotely. Not necessarily from home, either, the company grants you flexibility to go on a "working holiday" to wherever you want to work from.

Cons

The CEO is a nutjob and surrounded by yes-men. Emphasis on "men" here because they've managed to jettison or scare off most of their female staff from any mid-level or higher position. The number one priority is image and whitewashing anything negative. They fake reviews for their apps left right and center and you can bet they watch Glassdoor and "encourage" sympathetic employees to phone in five star experiences about working at Xplor. The second priority is stemming the bleeding from the customer base who were told the software they want to use would be EOL'd and they have to use the "new" second-rate software which is legacy trash. Third priority is backpedaling from ever saying to customers they were being migrated over 12 months to the second-rate one. The last priority is band-aiding together the tire fire that is their backend.

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Xplor Technologies Response
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Hi there, Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re glad you appreciated our forward-thinking attitude towards working remotely. We’re proud of our approach to flexible working and know this is something a lot of our Xplorers really appreciate. We are, however, disappointed to hear you’ve had a negative experience working at Xplor overall. One of our goals is for Xplor to be a great place to work, and we’re sorry this hasn’t been your experience. We’re a fast-growing company and we know this fast pace can result in complexity and communication challenges. This is something we will keep getting better at, including always equipping and empowering our leaders to be effective and supportive of their teams. Our purpose is to help people succeed, and we’re doing this through our unique combination of software, payments and commerce-accelerating technologies. Because we’re doing something no one else has really done before, the path is not always smooth. But we’re committed to listening to all feedback, as we use it to keep improving the way we work and what it feels like to work at Xplor – so again, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback. Thanks, Stefan from the Colleague Experience team

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