A No-frills, Straight-to-business Start Up - Product Manager 4xLabs Employee Review

- Learning opportunities: Business trip: the company gave every employee in team a chance to work in Singapore to see how the business work. Business domain: That was really great experience when you can work at a company and learn about the foreign exchange currency business, as well as the lean start up concept. The team worked really hard to get the requirements done and deliver to validate the business model. (cashback/sent message to all Money Changer, live rate)... Technical challenge: The product had some technical limitation at that time, however we worked to figure out things together and improved it in the lean way. - Startup culture The requirements change a lot, all the team from the CEO, CTO to Product Manager and Developer involved together and worked hard day and night for the release milestones, correct the data and validate business model. There are some stressful moment really, however as start up company, it’s unavoidable and understandable.

- Teamwork The team members was not really connected together. - Office space In 2016, we worked in a small room :)

4xLabs was my second employer and my first 'product company' and startup. It was a very different experience than the previous company, which was an outsourcing company. - CEO expects a LOT of ownership... but also gives you the power to propose new ideas as long as you OWE them until the end (this works for some people (like me) but might not work for everyone) - got to learn much more about the business, which was facilitated through weekly calls organized by the product manager and through joining client calls - worked very closely with the CEO who was always supportive and gave me the energy to go beyond expectations - learned new technologies like .NET Core, Docker, AWS and Angular

Sky high expectations to not only deliver solutions but also propose improvements and ideas, which was something challenging to me at the beginning of my employment. Too many product for too few people. Priorities changed (too) rapidly.