Untrustable and abusive company - Anonymous employee Fairphone Employee Review

1.0
19 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The office is very nice, open space with plants and a nice view. Employees in general are very motivated and they believe in the mission.

Cons

Everything seems nice at the first sight, strong community and a lovely team. However after a couple of months you realize that burnouts are a very common thing, every single employee is underpaid (except maybe for the recent management positions) and there is 0 structure. Salaries are extremely low, even if they claim to be a fair company, so you won't be able to live by yourself like an adult and forget about having a professional career. They justify all their actions with "we're a startup" and abuses are allowed for the sake of the mission. The concepts of "mental health" and "dignity" are completely unknown for People team -formerly known as HR. Employees start always full of energy because the mission is very appealing. Later they will be drained and they either leave or their contract is not renewed without a clear explanation, a new person full of energy and motivation will start and the vicious circle starts again. Also the office is full of battles between teams, personal dramas now and then, managers being disrespectful with employees... Your bigger challange is to keep your mental health and dig inside yourself for motiviation instead of achieving real goals. Skilled people is wasting their talent as they cannot learn anything from their managers and they will not grow within the company. Management decision are not transparent, they are not honest about the financial situation of the company with the employees nor the partners and investors. They are not transparent either about the product itself with the customers, which let employees with a sense of honour in a very uncomfortable position, especially when transparency is one of the core values. Working at FP is a experience full of professional frustration and you cannot even afford your rent.

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Cons

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Cons

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