Flipp Reviews

Pros

- Culture - The culture at Flipp is exactly what I want and need from a company. The heavy stress on being open, honest and putting the team first are the values that I personally hold to be very important. The culture and openness of the leadership team makes this the best place I have worked in my career.

- People - The people at Flipp are the best I've worked with in my career. The leadership and talent team does an incredible job finding some of the best people I've ever worked with. Everyone is of such a high caliber, and I have a lot of respect for everyone. I love the people that I work with, and I look forward to coming to work everyday.

- Challenging work - The problems that we're trying to solve are challenging and it is rewarding to try out solutions and make improvements as we learn.

- Growth and coaching - The emphasis on everyone continually growing, and expecting everyone to coach each other in one way or another is a big plus for me as well.

I can honestly say it is the happiest I've ever been in my career. I can genuinely say that I love my job and I love what I do.

Advice to Management

As the company grows, continue with intense focus on maintaining the culture. Continue listening to the employees and make adjustments as needed.

Pros

Intentional coaching, plenty of internal opportunities to grow, amazing community and work culture, great work perks and benefits, FREE TTC metropass to save on that commute in.

Pros

Company as a whole:
- Great culture
- Very horizontal structure: the founders know you by name despite the company being 400 people
- Smart, hardworking, nice, straight-forward people
- Good pay (including benefits, health insurance, metro pass)
- Perks (free snacks, lunches, bi-annual trips, etc)

Specific to Analytics/Insights:
- Interesting analytics projects
- Big emphasis on automating "ordinary" tasks: more time to do cool projects
- If you have a good idea, people actually encourage you to try it
- Training on analytics topics (i.e. stats, machine learning, big data platforms)
- You can use what tools you like (E.g. Python, R, SQL)
- You will be working with big data platforms, and will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools/languages (e.g. Pyspark, Scala)
- Collaboration and sharing across the wider "data team"

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you're doing.

Pros

- Great people. Flipp has some of the nicest people I've ever encountered at a workplace. Everyone is extremely friendly, willing to help, and coworkers often hang out outside of work.
- Transparent and open culture. Information is freely available and everyone is encouraged to give their opinions.
- As a developer, the compensation is definitely above industry standard in Canada
- Great opportunity to work on products that actually affect millions of people every day
- Work from home whenever you want, no questions asked.
- Company's prospects look good for the foreseeable future.
- Free lunch on Fridays. Great health plan. Office toys and other misc perks.

Advice to Management

Slow down from time-to-time and get buy-in/feedback on strategy from senior team members before cascading information to the entire organization.

Pros

- Challenging/Interesting work
- Tons of potential for career growth
- Great colleagues
- Competitive pay
- Great benefits
- Amazing office space
- Work life balance

Pros

-In my role, I am fortunate enough to work closely with the executive team at Flipp. They created a company that has a team-first approach where culture is at the centre of everything. As the company has now grown to over 350 people, this still holds true and is one of the key reasons why I love working here

-The freedom and responsibility I am given including a flexible work approach is more important to me than the traditional perks at other companies I have worked for

-There is a focus on communication so that team members have clarity on priorities which means everyone is on the same page

-The leaders at our company are invested in my growth path and take the time for coaching

-The passion from the team to continually innovate is inspiring to always to do my best

-Our teams take a test and learn approach which means we can execute quickly and always be ahead of the curve

Advice to Management

As the company grows, many team members don’t have a chance to get to know the founders. Set up an initiative, such as coffee chats, so that there is an environment for relationship building and two-way feedback.

Pros

Heavy emphasis on Team culture while allowing personal direction on career growth. The work is exciting and rewarding. Don't come here if you're hoping to cruise. There is a high level of excellence by which everyone is held accountable. Flexible work hours and option to work from home.

Advice to Management

Maintain culture as you grow. Don't become corporate. Reward your employees and they will continue to do great work you.

Pros

Supportive work environment, great team members, feels like working with family in a clubhouse rather than regular work, very innovative and always looking for new ideas, feedback is regularly given, great compensation and incentives

Advice to Management

You rock, don't ever change! Keep innovating, communicating with your employees and making everyone feel like they matter and their job is important.

Pros

Great office
Snacks
Friday lunch
Great work events
Location is alright

Advice to Management

Respect your employees. Treat us like you treat your customers. Management team has a lot to learn and improve on. I think it is because many of you are the core team with little managerial experience. I'm hoping to get out of here soon. I wish I was as thrilled as when I joined. Good luck!

Pros

Like a lot of tech companies the benefits and perks are really good so I won't go into these.

What I like the most about the company, aside from the amazing product that we are producing, is the culture that exists at Flipp.

1. Transparency and culture of trust. First of all, we don't have a vacation policy. Our policy is that you have to take a minimum of 3 weeks a year. Anything over you can take as much as you want if you need it and so long as you aren't hurting your team. If you say "oh, I haven't taken my 3 weeks this year because I'm too busy and I can't get away from the team" then someone will ask you "why?? If that's your excuse then that means you haven't done the right thing to level up your team to operate without you while you are on vacation."

We will sometimes receive emails from a team member that goes out to the entire company that says something along the line of "So and so retailer is upset with us because we messed up". The email is basically this person owning up to a mistake that they've made but this isn't about public shaming. It's about this employee having high trust and saying "this is how I messed up, this is what I learned from my mistake and this is how we ALL can learn from this mistake". It's about clarity, context and learning

2. Passion. Everyone at Flipp is passionate about their work and they believe in what they are building. When people get heated, when voices are raised it is due to passion and energy. I've never been in a meeting where people are attacked on a personal level. The language may get colourful but it's never directed at anyone...it's because the person is frustrated/passionate and the language punctuates their ideas.

I'll admit that I've been intensely coached by the CEO. Yes, it is INTENSE but I was never personally attacked and at the end of the coaching session the CEO always makes sure HE has a plan of attack to help me and make sure I get better

Advice to Management

Be sure to take the time to be introspective and think about how you are growing the company to ensure that you grow and strengthen the company