Pros
- Niche market, very profitable business, solid financial backers - A focus on company culture and living the company values, company stand ups etc - Experienced management team - Young, friendly and fairly international. - Drinks, boot camp, family-like - Decisions made quickly, as you’d expect from a scale up. Although this habit is likely to back-fire for certain decisions. - Generous exit terms
Cons
- A high % of staff leave, get pushed out or have a low tenure - High % of staff on burnout - Distant from end user due to reseller model, hard to empathise with the customer, for product people. - 90% of middle management positions are given to Dutch. - Mostly recruited from Emesa, narrow minded in that respect - 100% senior management are Dutch, not an international culture in reality - No feedback culture - Focus far too much on presentation in sprint reviews (flamboyance over content) - Several people have felt that the Category and Buying Director (ex Brand/Marketing) has bullied them and have felt manipulated.