Doba Reviews

3.4

64% would recommend to a friend

(45 total reviews)

Mandy Ji

64% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Doba has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 45 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Doba employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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45 reviews
2.0
6 Jan 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Working at Doba was a great learning experience. I was able to meet some fantastic individuals and received a lot of growth from working at Doba. Their CTO and COO are wonderful to work for! Great leaders and were clear with their expectations.

Cons

Their CEO was very passive aggressive and wouldn't give any feedback- negative or positive. You'd have to try and read his mind a lot of the time, as he was never clear with his expectations. If you didn't complete a task in the exact way he wanted you to, he would complain to the management team about the problem but never confront you to discuss it. It was a highly stressful environment due to his lack of leadership skills. The CEO wasn't organized at all, which negatively effected the rest of the team and created an unprofessional culture at Doba. Because the CEO isn't a people-person and lacks the type of personable skills to grow and lead the company, I foresee serious problems down the road with their growth and employee retention.

3.0
11 May 2015

Zero structure

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Really relaxed place to work. You never have to worry about being fired.

Cons

The company really used to be a great place to work. But then the company laid off some managers who had key responsibilities and they chose not to replace them. Their responsibilities then got forgotten about all while they needed to still be addressed. Zero advancement opportunities. When you express concerns to management, they literally laugh it off. They don't care if their sales representatives lie to customers.

2.0
13 Jan 2016

Great Environment, Poor Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people I worked around/with for the most part were great. The work environment was very laid back and casual. The upper management took very good care of us, and there was always a lunch/breakfast being had, parties being held, and employees receiving awards. The benefits were pretty good as well. Everyone was friendly with each other. If Doba was going for making their employees feel like they were part of a fun-loving sorority/fraternity, they nailed it. We were very well taken care of.

Cons

The cons are 100% focused on management, for quite a number of different things. Some people work well in uninspiring environments with little-to-no room for growth. That's great. I'm not one of those people. There were quite a few instances where I had a differing opinion from a higher-level employee. Whether I simply didn't like their idea or it was just plain wrong (Surprise. It happens), the response was the same. I was either laughed off, ignored, or walked over. The management also never told us what they wanted, until we did it wrong. Horrible business tactics. Especially if you want your employees to excel. The head of the company was an amazing person. I immediately felt like best friends. Except I worked there for a year and I'm pretty sure they never knew my name. They also spent way too much time fraternizing with employees. More concerned with how much they were liked than how well they were running their business. Also made me a little uncomfortable with how friendly they got with some employees. Communication, even between departments, was abysmal. It never felt like a cohesive business, just separate departments stuck together haphazardly. If you're looking for best friends, it's a great company. If you're looking to learn and progress professionally? I'd look elsewhere.

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