Pros
Technically an innovative field to work in Nice office space - not overwhelmingly busy CEO comes across as friendly and people person Flexibility for hybrid and work abroad at the time
Cons
Lack of support towards the Customer Success function - at the end of the day we are at the forefront with the largest customers and we know them the best. However, our requests for technical improvements were never highlighted nor supported (even when fully reasonable and feasible). Remember, customer acquisition costs more than retention ;) yet we were on the brink of losing the largest ones due to poor integrations and workflows. Emphasis on Improving integrations (key part of the whole business) was a daily struggle & the team in place for this was always very reluctant to support, or worse unresponsive & not joining set calls WITH key customers. Let’s not even bring up the lack of documenting such improvements. 2 key members to the integrations team were very unwilling to support even though at least one of them had all the necessary knowledge making it a massive waste of everyone’s time, and very rude with it (customer feedback by the way). Clearly sales was underperforming but there was no real “push” to get AM’s to work on upselling better. Some conversations with customers were just awkward when AM involved when it should be purely collaborative. Instead pushing the customer in the other direction.
Pros
I spent nearly 4 years at Yapily and having left over a month ago, I've finally had time to reflect on my experience working there. As a function of my role, I worked with people across a number of teams including engineering, product, pre-sales, strategy and leadership. It's clear that everyone has deep passion, and is tied into the collective mission. It was amazing to see everyone rallying together when we needed to think of creative approaches or overcome challenges. Yapily has a strong no-ego culture. Yapily is in an incredibly unique position with its product-market fit and commitment to the highest engineering standards, and so as a sales person I was always able to stand confidently behind the product and thus bring creativity to my stakeholder engagement. Managers and leadership are always there to support, and particularly in my last year working closely with the senior leadership team I learnt an inordinate amount and grew as a professional in so many ways. I miss the team and will continue cheering Yapily on from the sidelines!
Cons
As with any fast-growing company, there is a pressure to perform and work to the highest standard. This can be a bit daunting in the moment, but on reflection it really helped me grow as a person and I think has set me up well for my new role.
Pros
Generally a fantastic team that want to do their best Employees often form friendships due to hiring good fits A genuinely interesting industry to work in Opportunities to contribute ideas to the architecture The chance to work with some cutting edge technology Autonomous working most of the time (although some micromanagement occurs) Attempts to improve social aspects
Cons
The management team have: been condescending and belittling to employees lost their temper and shouted at employees in meetings deliberately pushed people out through restructuring hired friends and protected them when complaints were made shifted blame for negative events or mistakes while taking credit for the positives Other negatives: RTO under the guise of collaboration, even though the offices lack desks and meeting spaces Constant stream of employees (and knowledge) leaving the company employee morale completely drained and management are either blind to it or don’t care enough to do anything to address it disorganised plan as to what the product even is, constantly pivoting with no regard to how that affects the existing codebase
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