27 June 2018
Anonymous employee
Nimble Response
7yI really appreciate you took the time to write this feedback. I'm sorry to hear the experience you had and that some of these aspects didn't arise earlier during our frequent 1-on-1 meetings so we could have acted upon earlier.
I would like to address a few of the points you mention. First, a genuine interest on knowing about how your relocation is progressing and leave 1 week open to change to a different hotel in case you didn't feel comfortable, seem to have been misinterpreted, unfortunately. I have given instructions to the team involved to manage in a clearer way and arrange it for the entire time we offer. Adding to that, we will increase our policy to be 3 weeks for our teammate to find a place she/he feels comfortable with.
Regarding compensation, we have already implemented a level based career path for anyone that joins the company bringing transparency and aligning expectations since the candidate applies to join us. This is revised constantly to let us offer the above-market compensation as we currently do. This scale values different aspects that bring impact to the team apart from experience and actually encourages teammates to reach new levels valuing their impact on the team. Apart from our compensation scale, we do a continuous review of the compensation of each team member, usually every 3-4 months. Other benefits we have also added: a generous Provident Fund, a yearly education allowance for anyone to improve their skillset and a sabbatical month after you have been with us for 3 years.
Moving to another topic, during the all-hands meetings, we have been explicit that we should scale ourselves as well (eat, exercise and sleep well), to have a sustainable work pace and we encourage the people to leave on time. Adding a dedicated Product Manager a year and a half ago (we are even actively looking to increase this team) has helped us to achieve a better workflow and sustainable work pace. There have been few specific cases where we have needed to solve urgent issues, which haven't been the norm since the company started and it's has been a matter of professional courtesy with our clients to not leave them stranded when they need us. We will keep reminding about this during our all-hands meetings, thanks for bringing this up.
Talking about code reviews, our current process guarantees that all the codebase is reviewed by at least 2 reviewers, teammates from any level are part of this: junior, senior, lead, founders teammates. Even colleagues that are not part of the specific project are invited to review constantly, so reviews are balanced, with a dose of healthy technical discussions.
Finally, Interns are a great addition to the team as they bring a more casual point of view and fresh ideas to our projects, sometimes internal initiatives. I can say that currently, our internship is one the highest paid internship in Thailand (probably the highest paid one) and as of today we only have 1 intern per year, that could change as sometimes we have several outstanding candidates. The idea of the internship is to provide the Interns with a real-world experience, compared to what most companies offer: an internship that undervalues their potential by giving them errands or tasks nobody else wants to do. At the end of the internship, if we are a good fit for each other we would love to keep working with them in the future as full-time employees, as it has already happened.
Feel free to reach me out if you have more feedback carlos@nimbl3.com
Thanks and Regards, Carlos