Reviews van Fixico

There are only about 40 people working in the Amsterdam office, so even if there are a couple of difficult people, it greatly affects the environment. If you're unlucky enough to be on one of the teams with these difficult people, it doesn't matter how great the office and company are, you will suffer. In my case, there were at least 6 people who have made formal complaints about the same manager, and yet nothing has been done. People have left the company because of a single person, and yet they were treated as though they are not a culture fit, as opposed to the manager not being a culture fit. Another issue is the lack of trust of employees. HR and management sometimes treat employees like children to the extent that they MUST be at the office at 9, and leave only after 17:30 otherwise they are stealing company time. They focus more on how long you sit at your desk without chatting with colleagues, rather than the actual work that you deliver. In fact you can be one of the top performers in the company and still get scolded for being 5-10 minutes late. As a top performer, you begin to feel like you'd be valued far more elsewhere. Over the years I was at Fixico, the policies became increasingly strict and now you can only work remotely for a single week out of the year and only to visit immediate family. It's absurd that a tech scale-up has these outdated practices, and it's a huge turn-off for ambitious talent with far more attractive and flexible options on the table. Lastly, there's a significant pay disparity. Some people are paid really well because they negotiated well from the start, or joined/got promoted at a strategic time. Others, even on the same level of seniority with just as much output, get paid practically non-livable wages and are mocked when they ask for raises - but again this depends on your manager.