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      Dayshape

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      Dayshape Reviews

      4.0

      66% would recommend to a friend

      (31 total reviews)

      Andrew Bone and Matt Cockett

      87% approve of CEO

      79% positive business outlook

      Dayshape has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dayshape 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
      2.0
      25 July 2019

      Lack of experience at Executive level and it shows! There are favourites.......

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      People tend to be upbeat and positive. Good company days out for bonding sessions. Work is challenging which is great. Good weekly company all hands so you are aware what is happening in the business.

      Cons

      The Executive team - first startup and it shows. They need an experienced COO who has been here before. There is misplaced confidence with the CCO especially. Transparency is a value and I am still unsure if they can claim that as one. It is blatant that there are favourites across the business. They are mostly dominate loud characters (nice enough) but emotional intelligence is lacking with them and the attitude is "oh that is just the way they are". Not good enough.

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      Dayshape Response
      6y
      We’re really sorry you didn't feel Airts was the right fit for you. You joined us in a brand new role in a brand new team, and we didn’t have the processes established to give you the experience you were looking for, despite our best intentions. We can't agree with your comment on our CCO. He has helped to transform and grow Airts over the past 2.5 years, and the company wouldn’t have flourished if not for his contribution. Our confidence in him has been earned. The secret to his success is that he demands perfection for our customers, but we recognise the pressure this can sometimes create. We want to maintain the fun environment here, so we'll take your feedback on board and do what we can to minimise stressful situations. We absolutely agree with your point that we still need more experienced leadership. We are a first-time startup that has doubled in size in 6 months! We have taken steps in this regard by bringing Roan Lavery (CPO and Co-founder at Freeagent) onto our board, and we are very excited that we'll soon be able to announce the hiring of an experienced VP Engineering to the senior leadership team (plugging much of the COO gap you identify). We wish you all the best.
      2.0
      11 Dec 2023

      Great colleagues however toxic leadership

      Marketing manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      The company seems to hire great people, however, struggles to provide them with the tools/opportunity to accelerate and make an impact. They will also take their ideas and use the employee until they no longer need them and let them go. Benefits were standard - health benefit is poor. HR attempts to create a collaborative virtual environment.

      Cons

      - Everyone is stretched thin, therefore, there's no support from coworkers or colleagues. You're expected to learn everything from Confluence pages. - Management is awful - they don't have your well-being in mind or support your growth. This starts from upper management and trickles down to the departments. Upper management will make inappropriate/sexist jokes and you're unable to report it in fear of losing your job. - Department heads don't know what they are doing and constantly assign unrealistic deadlines. Therefore, projects are rushed and never executed properly. - Management also never listens to their team's feedback. Even though there's an engagement survey taken and you can see the teams concerns in black and white, however, they let employees who "retaliate" or are opposed as a threat go. - Managers will constantly remind you, that you're paid too much in your 1:1 and that you aren't doing enough. Therefore, you opt to work holidays and try to appease them but they still find reasons to blame project failures on you. - When a campaign fails, management tends to push the blame on the team, even though the entirety of its failure is the manager's fault. - Managers have a hands-off approach and will micro-manage tasks and deadlines. Expect to meet with them 3-4 times a week to just tell them status updates. - Company lacks diversity - the D&I board is run by straight caucasian women and there are probably 3-4 people of color company-wide. - If you're based in the US, you are treated like a contractor. - US employees do not have the support of the UK HR team but a third-party HR team in the US. They are awful to work through and have incorrect hiring information within their database. - Transparency - Management will not provide you with the transparency you need to succeed. ie. If there is a budget, what Micromanaging - All your actions/work will be micromanaged by your managers.

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      Dayshape Response
      2y
      Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. Like all scaling companies, we have encountered a few growing pains as our team has grown and moved into new countries like the US over the last couple of years. It’s really important to us to create a great working environment for everybody, so we’re committed to listening to feedback and making improvements. Over the past few months, we’ve rolled out a manager development programme along with various resources in our new line manager toolkit. These will continue to evolve over time, helping us embed best practices in every team as well as supporting managers’ professional development. Our D&I board is made up of volunteers, which means the membership changes over time; representation across various demographics is quite different in the D&I board today than it was even a few months ago. While working in a scale-up can be challenging, we are overall really proud of the great feedback we get about the team and the values-led, people-first culture. It’s clear this wasn’t your experience of Dayshape, and we’re sorry this didn’t work out; we’ll take your feedback to heart as we continue to develop and improve our practices. As we didn’t get a report about sexist jokes while you were at Dayshape, we couldn’t action this at the time. However, if you would be willing to share details now, please email hr@dayshape.com and we will investigate. Any reports of inappropriate or sexist jokes and/or behaviour are taken extremely seriously. We wish you all the best for the future.
      2.0
      12 June 2019

      Dont believe the hype

      Office manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Main team of staff are hard working and a fantastic team to work with and support Educational budget - company support continual professional development Engaged CEO

      Cons

      * Inexperienced management * Bullying management culture outwith main team * Zero respect and dignity * Dishonest - staff were asked to write the other reviews on here to give the company a great profile on glassdoor - what other start up company would have 5 stars at such an early stage in their development? Management aware of this and allowed it to happen *Stress filled environment that's not managed properly *Unsupportive Management outwith product team *No proper processes in place and unwillingness to listen or change

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      Dayshape Response
      7y
      Thanks for your feedback. We’re really committed as a company to creating a positive and supportive environment for our team, and it’s never good for anyone when things don’t work out the way we'd like. We've taken your feedback on board, and have already made changes to ensure we don't lose our focus on our people and their well-being as the company grows. On the Glassdoor reviews, we do feel we asked team members to be honest with their reviews, but in light of your feedback, we've reminded everyone about this message. We wish you all the best for the future.
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