Not what it used to be - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Paazl

2,0
20 mar 2025
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Looking at Paazl before it was acquired by competitor Wuunder, I would agree with the mostly positive reviews posted at the time. You can tell it used to be a well-structured company with helpful and competent colleagues, with a clear intent and strategy, as some of it has remained since the acquisition.

Svantaggi

Paazl as it is now is a mere shadow of what it used to be as an independent company. Deteriation started after the company was bought by a smaller competitor called Wuunder; within half a year, the last Paazl founder along with one of Wuunder's founders left, leaving just the other Wuunder founder as CEO. This CEO then scrambled to assemble a management team from the existing Paazl MT along with a few newly appointed Wuunder colleagues, completed by a newly hired sales director and CFO - a whopping MT of ten. Together, they were supposed to determine a direction for the joint company, but poor management skills from the CEO's side led to important decisions being postponed time and again. Eventually, some members fell ill and left the MT, and in early 2025, six managers left within a month; this left a single MT member alongside the CEO. Side note: seven more non-MT colleagues left over the course of the first three months of 2025. Anyway, since the CEO has publicly stated that he prefers a flat organization, this situation is probably fine with him - he continues to sell these changes as positive within the company. Various Wuunder and Paazl colleagues have expressed the CEO's inability to heed advice or criticism, always blaming others for anything that goes wrong within the company, his tendency to micromanage, and his volatile and unrealistic ideas. All of this together led to the current state of Paazl as part of Wuunder: a company without a clear direction or perspective, with colleagues making the best of the situation, hindered by a CEO with ever-changing, unrealistic, and vague ideas.

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1,0
6 ago 2025
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The below review is accurate, every single word is true and it beautifully describes the issues. Not a thing of it was embellished. The only plus-side of it all is the masterclass on a functional company, unfortunately it was presented through the dissection of a company by the CEO.

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The CEO. Every word of the previous is true. It was shared internally, not a thing has changed. Never before have I seen someone so blatantly display favouritism towards his own company. It does not matter to him that Paazl was doing things better than Wuunder. The expertise of the other company was unfortunately ignored. Despite the blatant fact that that is not true, the multitude of examples where Wuunder could have learned from Paazl are present, but always igonored by him.

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5,0
10 gen 2023
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The Paazl development department is an informal and friendly group of people, with no strict separation between development tasks. This makes for a great opportunity to explore your particular development interests, whether it's databases, APIs or frontends. Developers are free to review each other's tasks, regardless of seniority. Feedback and ideas are taken seriously and converted into concrete tasks with support from the product owner and Scrum master. Processes are simple and practical, taking the most useful aspects from Scrum and Kanban, and meetings are short and to the point. The company as a whole reflects the development team, an informal bunch with no visible hierarchy; at the office, everyone just sits together in a single room with no distinction between job or department. There is a remarkable lack of office politics going on.

Svantaggi

There is an ongoing effort to migrate the Paazl software from a monolithic platform to a microservices-based architecture. This transition involves some temporary duplication of certain features, which can make it slightly more complex to develop. As with many companies, the Paazl organization needs to balance its own roadmap with that of its external stakeholders; so from time to time, technically challenging projects will have to make room for things that just need to be done on account of deadlines.

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