Afterpay Reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(230 total reviews)

Anthony Eisen

78% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Afterpay has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 230 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Afterpay employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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230 reviews
1.0
14 Feb 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some regular events and massages. Nice office. Some of the senior tech people knows their stuff and are very nice, approachable people.

Cons

Look at the recent wave of 5 star reviews, 4 on February 6th, 3 on Feb 12 and 13th, how likely they are a coincidence? That's more than half of the reviews written at this time. There's a clear internal coordination because HR realised that they have difficulties attracting talent. For a technologist, prepare to tolerate the following : Unreasonable deadlines, "high performance culture" means mediocre pay and long hours, lack of any review process means achievements are not recognised and promotions depends on relationship not merit. Rampant favouritism. Lack of diversity (some teams might as well use Hindi/Chinese as work language, as hiring managers only hire their own ethnicity). Promised ownership but give the most meaningless vesting stock option schedule possible. If you are a talented technologist, don't waste your time here like I did. You have much better choices. The company now resembles much larger organisations much more than a start up. It is a sales/marketing driven retail loan company, not a tech company. The tech stack is boring and old, the focus is not on engineering practice but meeting demands of large merchants, and your career will be in a dead end.

2.0
13 Aug 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It's a job during a time when many people don't have one. Ground level team has a true family vibe.

Cons

Upper management leaving fake reviews.. We work with these people daily, we know they're writing styles. This should tell you everything you want to know. Constantly threatened with performance management plans, meanwhile management level people do nothing, and pass the buck to the team leaders to do their jobs for them. Several members of management are bullies and have outstanding complaints against them, but no action is ever taken when agents are repeatedly reduced to tears by their behaviour. Policies rolled out which seem to tell us that they're actively trying to reduce the team probably to take it overseas, for instance, if you're late three times within an undetermined period, you could be performance managed or terminated. There are plenty who are late more often than this but are part of the favourites so aren't affected. Constantly reminded if you use your sick leave that if you use up your sick leave you could be terminated too. Lots of threats, the place is really degrading to work for. No career progression unless you're part of the favourites club.

2.0
25 Jan 2021

Ambitious & demanding

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lovley people; lots of opportunities; drive and energy; start up vibes.

Cons

- the interview process is insanely difficult - once you arrive, you are thrown in the deep end - it is extremely disorganised - management have little sense of the pressure they put employees under - you will be expected to work long hours, weekends and public holidays - many people, Inc management say afterpay has taken over their lives - a says at afterpay is that 1 year is like 7 because of the intensity - they are proud of how demanding they are - pay is low because they think they can get away with it. - Common practice to bully people out of jobs if they aren't liked.

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