Give back the money you took. - Recensione dipendente - Software Engineer presso Redis

At Redis Labs, we have a unique culture built by employees all around the world. We take pride and encourage open, honest, and collaborative communication. Thank you for taking the time to provide us your feedback. From a company standpoint, we have a fiduciary responsibility to our customers, employees, and shareholders. Our employees are our biggest assets and are also shareholders vested in the company's success. As such we look for people who want to be part of building something great and help make it successful. COVID-19 crisis presented great challenges and uncertainty. During these times, similar to many other companies, we reacted fast, reduced our budget, and implemented flexible policies to ensure a healthy runway for the company. In the R&D team, we prioritized protecting jobs to upkeep morale and safeguard the long term ability of the team to meet the company’s objectives, so we made the tough decision to temporarily reduce salaries by 10%. Once the situation improved quicker than originally anticipated, we reverted the salary reduction by 5%. Post the recent funding round, we not only canceled the salary reduction but also retroactively paid the salary cut for a month back. On a side note, the 2 VPs that left the company during this period were not from the R&D team and their salary was not impacted by this action. All in all we believe we acted in a responsible and fair manner for the sake of the company and our employees. We have done a great deal of improvements in continuous integration but there is certainly always more work and improvements that can be done, saying it is not being worked on is far from reality, and we’re sorry that you feel this way. We manage very sensitive production workloads for our customers, and their success is one of our utmost high priorities. Reality is that when there is a production event we are all expected to fix them ASAP even if it is in the middle of the night because our customers depend upon us to do so. As a result we recognize people for going above and beyond when they do so. In short, thank you for your feedback. While we much appreciate it and can always learn and improve, this is not the feedback we’re getting from dozens of other R&D members.