A warning for new hires - Software Engineer Rocket.Chat Employee Review

2.0
6 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- The HR team and their initiatives are one of the best things about the company. - Good culture and life / work balance. - Lots of projects to work and get yourself into. - Good and friendly environment...

Cons

... until it's not. First of all, most of positive reviews here are from trainees or summer of code interns. The reality for full time hires is quite different. Let's start with payment and salary, which is average for brazilian employees but very low for global employees. The revisions are almost non existent. The stock benefit is not immediate. To fully vest the stocks you have, you need to work in RC at least 3 years. Back to the core issue of Rocket.Chat: Its "founder" members. With the exception of Gabriel, the CEO, the rest of them (which are most of the directors and managers) live in some kind of delusional fantasy that they are some kind of brazilian Silicon Valley geniuses (spoiler: they are not) and everything is fine until you start to make questions and intend to make changes to the core processes of the company. If you cross one of these founders, you will be marked, and all the good vibes and culture of the company disappears. Ironically, they hired a lot of people to change the company for the better, in a lot of different new and enhanced processes: Agile, Scrum, QA, PM, PO, etc... but the reality is that most of the company is absolutely reluctant to change.

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Rocket.Chat Response
4y
Thank you for your feedback! We're really proud of our culture and of the work our People team has been developing! Although scaling our company brings challenges, we're working hard to implement the necessary processes and improvements for our growth, investment and development of our team! We appreciate your transparency and we also want to be open to work on the points you approached, so please feel free to reach out to Gabriel Engel or anyone from our People team to describe the issues you faced so we can further understand the points you brought!

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Pros

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Cons

None as per my experience

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Rocket.Chat Response
2y
Thank you for the feedback! We are glad you are having a nice journey!
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