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      3.5

      63% would recommend to a friend

      (141 total reviews)
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      Jody Madden

      66% approve of CEO

      48% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Diversity and inclusion

      3.4

      Culture and values

      3.2

      Senior management

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      2.9

      Compensation and benefits

      Foundry has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 141 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Foundry employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      141 reviews
      4.0
      13 May 2022

      Overall a great company

      Anonymous employee
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      Business outlook

      Pros

      talented individuals passionate to making great products

      Cons

      Communication between outer department teams could be improved.

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      Foundry Response
      4y
      Thank you for taking the time to write us a review. You're right to highlight our talented and passionate team - they really do put their all into delivering great products and support to our customers. We're very lucky to have them! I'm also very pleased to read your thoughts on our People focus. Over the last few years, we've been focused on making Foundry an even better place to work and in this time, we've significantly grown our People team to make sure we're able to provide the best support and development across each touch point of people's time with us. We have also increased the regularity with which we ask for feedback through various employee surveys, helping us to understand if the actions we're putting in place are having a positive impact or if we need to direct our attention to other areas to help us continue improving things for everyone. Thank you also for your comment on communication between teams. With multiple teams working together to deliver to our customers, creating the best environment to facilitate cross-team communication and collaboration is an ongoing focus for us, particularly as we transition to more of a hybrid working model. I would be interested to know more about your experiences on this front, so if you would like to share any thoughts on how we can improve communication at Foundry, please let me know. Thanks, Jody.
      2.0
      15 Sept 2016

      Alas...

      Anonymous employee
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Relaxed and informal work environment, flexible working hours, good central london location and your colleagues are generally nice decent people.

      Cons

      No real career progression, always at the grind stone working to get another release out - no real engineering culture to inspire you or learn from. This isn’t a place to come learn your trade and grow, you get a once a year appraisal which is lip service at best and then forgotten about for the rest of the year. New management have made it pretty clear they are not in the business of rewarding you financially and have an agenda to reduce costs where possible. Staff retention is terrible currently, a lot of the old faces are leaving and ‘promotions’ are handed to people without any increase in salary.

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      Foundry Response
      9y
      Thanks for your comments. Whilst I agree that we have suffered some attrition this is now stabilising and leveling out. Not everyone wants to accept change but the changes were necessary in order to grow and improve our position in the market. We are introducing many new communication initiatives which will provide staff with an opportunity to get answers to their questions. This was not done consistently in the past and we acknowledge this.
      2.0
      19 Mar 2015

      Shadow of its former self... RUN!

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Great people, great products, fun and interesting. Office was small and cramped, but what it lacked in aesthetics, it made up for in character.

      Cons

      Marketing are the driving force of bitter infighting and office politics. After the old VC purchase and the new one, there was a restructure that benefited those who where in the "inner circle". A flourish of inexperienced managers who didn't know what they wanted, but needed to raise sales and revenue, non the less, led to two failed products and loss of valued colleagues. No remorse and no regrets attitude from C Staff teams. Watch out for HR. Complete poison. Cold blooded and under handed tactics that will, and have led to, lots of top people leaving. The ousting of the original founder was the last straw for most. With another round of VC to be had, they will be trimming the fat, after the sale. Look else where.

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      Foundry Response
      9y
      I appreciate your review and the nature of it. I only joined Foundry at the end of 2015, along with many of the executive members, so I'm not able to comment on the specific examples outlined. However, I am genuinely sorry to hear how negatively you view your time at Foundry. Change is very difficult and we have experienced a lot of it recently. The teams have changed a lot in the past year and many of the old structure are no longer part of Foundry today. Hopefully, this type of review will no longer be applicable to Foundry as a massive amount has changed since you posted it.
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