Good intentions, poor execution - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Transreport

Great salary, great people (at the time) and fully remote environment. I really enjoyed working here. The management weren't the most proactive but they were nice people and did give updates promptly. The developers were amazing. In terms of company culture, this company had a lot of positives because it was an international company who had good morals and spoke with kindness. I can't say anything wrong about the people.

I think everything went downhill after the new CTO joined (he used to be at JustEat company). After he joined, we saw people being made redundant left right and centre. He also brought a cut throat mentality to the work place. Gave us a warning on his first 'all-hands' that there will be cuts. This was unfortunately a scare tactic that eventually came true. I joined the company and was let go 6 months later, on the day of my 'probation' ending. Alongside at least 30 other people, we were let go and never to be seen. From what I heard since I got let go, they did more cuts and even fired people that helped build them to where they are today. I was even told that they micromanage people's AI usage and get rid of people who are 'prompting' too often on LLM's (something they decided to switch to after letting go of lots of people). The CEO/Founder is also responsible. He would fake 'cry' when people were made redundant to try make people think he is emotional and cares. But realistically he doesn't care and that was just a performance to get the people who are still there, to be onboard with the changes.

Amazing people from all over the world. The compensation is also very good when I joined, the best I’ve ever had. Full remote working environment when I was there.

They will just see you as a number here, not a human person. I got laid off as soon as I returned from paternity leave. There was a change in CTO, who ruined the great working culture here. He used to work at Just Eat and decided to basically cut cost by getting rid of so many people. iOS team used to be 8 people working across 3 different apps. That got reduced to 2. From what I heard, they switched to React Native soon after I left to reduce the work force even more to the point the devs who created the new RN app, got sacked. I heard many negative things since I’ve left. The founder is also quite brutal. Comes across as an empathetic person but he will lay people off every 6 months. I believe it’s a company who did so well to have a good collective of people who tried hard for the business due to the nature of the business, but soon became all about numbers.