Soldo Reviews

There is no business strategy or direction (or if there is, it changes every week, as the CEO pleases). Very strange company culture where it is acceptable to be very late for meetings. Equally, most meetings overrun by 15-20 mins, especially if the CEO is present. Most decisions are made at the top, so don't expect to be respected as an expert in your field - if the CEO says it needs to be done completely the opposite way, there is no way anyone will disagree or voice their concerns. Expect your skills to worsen while you're at Soldo - there isn't much opportunity to show them off or apply them. Most of the time it is rather quiet. While people are nice, middle management is non existent, so all of the decisions that are being made by the CEO are not communicated properly to the company or down the ranks. You will be in the dark most of the time. The turnover is so high. It is shocking. Most people I met during my first week during intros have told me they are leaving. Others have followed shortly. No culture of giving feedback, whether positive or negative. Lots of things are always being planned with none of them ever materialising.

Sadly, however, it’s not all sunshine and roses. Soldo is extremely toxic. The ship is sinking under the rising tide of nepotism. I'm not going to go into too much detail on the cons, because it's sad to focus on negatives. Soldo don't value their staff as they should with what feels like a bullying culture. No social events, and you really do feel like a number here rather then a name. A lot of scapegoating and this creates a very stressful, prison-like workplace. I think it’s also fair to say that technically I regressed during my time at Soldo Things move painfully slowly. The tasks are generally fairly menial. Most of the cool stuff has already been built. I think, however, I became a lot smarter as to what sort of politics can go on at medium sized organisations. A valuable, yet shocking experience.