EventMobi Reviews

Pros

Great start up feel and innovative attitude. A lot of responsibility is distributed throughout the company. It's growing fast - a lot of employees that have been here less than a year.

Advice to Management

Just keep on delegating responsibility to those you trust and leading the company overall in the right direction :)

Pros

- Coworkers are smart, dedicated and genuinely good people that enjoy spending time together. There's a real sense of being in it together - no sign of backstabbing or petty politics, instead there's problem-solving and collaboration.
- Managers that really care about their direct reports as people and encourage personal and professional development.
- Those who are smart and hard-working are nurtured and given lots of amazing opportunities (additional responsibility, promotion, etc). Recent investment in management training is an example of how the company works to develop its young leaders. I have never learned so much in such a short period of time!
- The product and the industry are genuinely interesting and the entire company is encouraged to develop their knowledge of the marketplace.
- The "little" things: Great office location, active social committee always planning fun contests & events, regular team outings (go karting, ax throwing, rock climbing, etc)

Advice to Management

Fine-tuning companywide communication and creating more alignment on priorities - executives seem to be aware that these are areas for improvement and there are a few good related initiatives in progress which is encouraging to see.

Pros

Many low level employees are nice.

Advice to Management

Everyone is already actively interviewing, myself included.

Pros

The salasry is ok compare to other companies

Pros

EventMobi is a great place to explore your role and grow within the organization. Everyone working at EventMobi had an a great outlook on work and life and have incredible positive attitudes. Teams go the extra mile and the friendships go beyond just going for a lunch. Everyone is willing to learn and grow and the company is open to making mistakes and taking risks, analyzing these and trying something completely different. I have been at EventMobi for a year and love the people I work with, think the new office is absolutely beautiful and enjoy the bright office, standing desks and views. I know that there is good work-life balance here when 5:00pm rolls around people are leaving with their colleagues which is think is great.

The company is still a start-up and is highly collaborative and transparent. Anytime there is a new product launch the whole company will attend a demo day to keep us up to date. The CEO is very passionate about his role and I always see him talking with anyone in the organization. He does not have an ego and is highly approachable.
The most recent retreats of SkiMobi to Blue Mountain was amazing, the company rented a Coach bus and brought everyone up while others went up together and rental chalets and spend more of the weekend together as a group. This shows a sign of close-nit groups. You feel at home here- I have worked in other offices and I often feel that I am not working downtown Toronto. I enjoy my job, know I have had a ton of growth within the past year and am blessed to work with passionate, intelligent people.

Advice to Management

Keep up the SkiMobi & CampMobi and facilitate people in Mix-in mingles they work. I made friends in engineering from a Mix & Mingle that I would not really hang out with before. Continue to put money into your people, perks and events- these motivate employees and make them happy.

Pros

The work culture and people are definitely what will get you!
I've been with EventMobi for a while now, and it still doesn't get old.

EventMobi is a growing company with a lot of growth to be had. If you are ambitious, new to the work force and full of ideas and patience, this is a great place to be.
That being said, because there is still a lot of growth, if you are experienced and well-seasoned in your career, this could be a great company to take on.
Feedback is valued heavily, and Bob/Marketing and Operations are really taking initiatives to improve employee experience.
There are a lot of incredible opportunities to learn and be heard at this company.
Although many complain that EventMobi has "lost perks", there are still plenty of perks of working here.
Staff take their time to hire the right people so that there is a strong dynamic in the workplace.
There are more work activities here than any other place I've ever worked at. As for onboarding, there is also plenty of opportunities to meet new people in the company.
In general, the people make it.
The connections you make at work are crucial, you spend most of your day with these people. The people at EventMobi make me want to go to work every day.
The massage chair is pretty great too.

Advice to Management

Despite what I've read here, I think EventMobi is still figuring it all out in terms of management, and that's where growth happens. Bob started EventMobi with high hopes, and he's been doing a pretty great job. You can tell when he speaks how much he loves this company and tries to translate that to his employees. Bob, keep doing what you're doing and speaking with so much passion. If you are part of the MobiFam, that means you have confidence in this company and know that with the incredible growing team here, anything is possible (cheesy but true).

Pros

- The people are most certainly friendly, as far as it is observed

Advice to Management

I think it was discussed in other reviews, but there certainly is a disconnect happening. Unsure if it is due to the need for more employee resources and everyone is busy, but employees need to work together more.

Pros

- Genuine, considerate, comprehensive interview process - one of the best I've seen from a Toronto tech company - EventMobi is definitely concerned about the fit for you in addition to the fit for them
- Some of the most capable, dedicated, and intelligent people I've ever worked with
- A genuine desire to see the entire team/company grow and succeed
- Inspiring individuals that go above and beyond for *everyone*
- Lots of effort to ensure that everyone understands the company goals and everyone's role, regardless of department/division
- A strategic vision for their market that shows both understanding and empathy for their clients/customers
- Very transparent, at all levels of management
- Dedication to collecting regular feedback and opinions on *everything* with solid effort to continuously improve
- The most energetic group of people I've had the pleasure of calling coworkers, an abundance of opportunities to socialize and have fun outside of work hours
- Technical leadership (at the time) that can forge very effective plans for success and is supremely dedicated to the well-being of the team
- Chapters and monthly meetings to cultivate new skills (job-related and other skills) and inspire personal growth and direction

Advice to Management

It's abundantly clear from my time there that you care about people - those who use your platform *and* everyone that helps build it. Keep doing that.

Pros

The people are really the only pro of the company. Most people are genuine and nice and you will likely be friends with many people across the company

Advice to Management

Management needs to start treating employees fairly and with respect otherwise great people will continue to leave the company. The CEO and the COO are extremely conceited and believe they are giving everyone a once in a lifetime chance to work at EventMobi. They walk around thinking they’re on some sort of high horse because of their titles. They need to spend more time listening to their employees rather than over ruling them just because they can and they want to save money at all costs.

CEO - I don’t believe you are at all qualified to run this company. You ask for honest feedback and nobody gives you it because they are afraid that you will have yet another irrational and emotional freak out and fire them. You care more about having a nice office and posting pictures bragging on Instagram than you care about providing your employees with a great work environment and the freedom and ability to grow. If you want EventMobi to truly prosper, I suggest you step down. It is likely you would seen an immediate increase in company morale and turnover would likely drop significantly. Do everyone a favour and allow someone else to run the company before you burn it to the ground

Pros

- Non-management staff are generally great people with positive outlooks

- Decent selection of post work sport teams to join

Advice to Management

If you are going to use the 12 questions of employee engagement as a measuring stick then you should actually consider reading the source material so as to understand why these questions are being asked in the first place.

Bob, please talk less. Here are some examples of when you've put your foot in your mouth: saying that all of the hires of a particular manager sucked in front of the whole company (including the people this manager hired), getting in arguments with other managers (including your brother) during town halls because they weren't prepared enough (this always came off like you failed them in providing the proper guidance of what they should be doing) and the oodles of promises you've made that just fell absolutely flat like your weekly email (if you didn't do it you were going to donate money, which you never stuck to actually doing). It just makes you look bad. You've either surrounded yourself with people who are going to agree with anything you say and/or you've made these people too scared to actually say anything at all. Either way, it's at the determent of your company.

All the consultants in the world are not going to be able to replace managers who actually care about their team and the work they do.