Chiliz Reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)

Alexandre Dreyfus

67% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Chiliz has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Chiliz 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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31 reviews
1.0
25 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- if you signed up very early, they'd give you some tokens (unfortunately those are down due to market trends now)

Cons

You can't learn anything, as all teams are juniors with "senior" titles - teams have no idea what they do. It looks like a festival of code monkeys introducing features without keeping up to basic quality standards. Engineering practices, patterns etc. can be thrown out of the window. Management is full of people who are first time in their lives in that kind of role. Salary is mediocre so to say. In any other company one can get easily 2x more. In fact that's all what I got after staying there for a long time.

1.0
26 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Token allocation per employee, dependent on your position and time you've been in the company. - Plenty of Events and you really need them for alcohol you need with the cons of this company. - Once or twice a year bonus for everyone of 1,500 Euro per employee (I am not sure regards contractors) - Colleagues are fun, and easy to drink with them - Broken equipment they will repair it and replace you with temporary one until it is fixed, the cost it is on them. - Clean offices - Location of the company it is good, as you've many places where you can get lunch, drinks after work. Although there is a lot more companies in the area that willing to provide you better.

Cons

- Overall, this company is not a good place to work at due to the numerous issues and lack of support from management. It is not a positive or productive work environment. - Unreasonable expectations and workloads. - Inadequate compensation and benefits compared to industry standards. - Limited opportunities for career advancement. - Poor work-life balance. - Inadequate training and resources provided. - Unfair treatment of certain employees. - Lack of communication, accountability and transparency from management. - Lack of clear communication and direction from management. - Poor management and lack of support from upper management. - Hostile or toxic work environment. - Negative company culture, where employees do not feel valued or respected. - Constant excuses for not meeting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) without any constructive feedback or solutions offered. - Incompetent technical team, resulting in frequent technical issues and delays, with a codebase that is a huge mess. - Constant negativity, lack of communication and poor teamwork among employees. - Micro-management by managers who lack the necessary skills and experience. - Highly qualified employees are being demotivated, while juniors are promoted to positions of authority because it is cheaper. - No respect towards your skills and knowledge, and by the time you leave, you will end up 3 steps backwards on your knowledge. - No focus on architecture, design principles, or best practices in the tech team. - One mistake on a task can be held against you for years in performance reviews. - Unofficial promotions, that leads to nowhere, other than extra work. - Constant micromanagement with progress of tasks checked every few minutes/hours. - For engineers, there is no tests or anyone consider them. If a test fail, disable, push and move on, then they wonder why they have a critical bug for. - Multiple distribution of teams, each one breaks each other features, leads to confusion, mess. - Lack of appreciation for stabilizing the codebase, with management taking credit for your hard work. - Long-term exhaustion and burnout, leading to the need for a long-term vacation and potentially psychiatric help to recover. - Working with this company can make it difficult to work with anyone else after leaving. - Remote work in other country during your travel, needs to be approved, good luck with that. - If a manager disrespect you and you speak with the management about it, you will end up in trouble later, perhaps they will consider of lay you off. - We were forced to be at work on Saturdays due to how bad management of the company is - Token allocation you will only get after 6 months, while possibly you will get peanuts. - If you gonna go for allocation, than find another job that gives much better equity, that you've agreed on from the start not while in the company and after 6 months you get surprised.

1.0
28 Jan 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

None that were worth enduring the rest for.

Cons

I want to share my negative experience at the company during my 3-month tenure. I was a part of the Chiliz Exchange team. I left my previous job to join them under the promise of an exciting project with growth prospects. However, as soon as I started, it became evident that the project had no future, and the company was not committed to it. Things took a turn for the worse after three months. We were then informed that, due to the company's decision, the entire team was being LAID OFF. This is completely unacceptable, in my opinion. I left my job to join your company, and now you're telling me you're discontinuing the project? Didn't you know this three months ago? Do you think it's right to toy with people's professional careers like this? This pertains to the end result, but the internal communication and decision-making within the organisation were also abysmal. I do not recommend anyone to join this company.

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Chiliz Response
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us and are sorry to hear that your experience with us wasn’t great. We regret that the business unit you joined did not align with your expectations. Any and every company has different life cycles - Chiliz is no different in that sense. We move fast and there have been, and will continue to be, moments where difficult decisions have to be made about the future of a business unit or project and how they align to the future success of the business. In your case, the decision was not anticipated at the time of your recruitment. However, we do understand the impact of such decisions and the impact they can have on one's professional trajectory. If there are other issues that you would like to discuss please feel free to contact me directly. People Director
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