Hyperikon Reviews

3.2

56% would recommend to a friend

(14 total reviews)

Jan Brandrup

73% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

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14 reviews
2.0
21 Aug 2018

Frustrating, unrewarding, demoralizing despite best efforts.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

-Talented, smart, inclusive team members. Everyone is insightful and pulls their weight and then some. -Ability to gain variety of experience, implement strategies, and make an impact on the business (depending on your role) -Perks such as casual dress, dog-friendly, brunch 1x week, lunch 1x week, company events

Cons

This review is my opinion, but I think others share some of these views. I left this company on my own accord due to unhappiness primarily with the culture and management. Company owners/managers appear to have little integrity or trust. For instance, I am fairly certain that the most recent review was disingenuously written by management posing as a former employee (listing no personal experiences, no cons/advice, and posting from the office location, no less). I could be wrong but it is misleading. I don’t feel that the managers are unkind or ill intentioned, but rather seem out-of-touch. They claim they are people-first and working to improve the culture but I have not observed much meaningful progress over the course of a year. Hyperikon was once a very fun and driven place to work. Unfortunately, after certain events and changes, that seemingly fell apart with no warning or explanation. Since then, I feel that the culture has gone severely downhill and has revealed shortcomings. It became a depressing place to work. Several people have left (most voluntarily) and have not really been replaced, which increased workload and worsened morale. Some effort was made to bring back perks that were removed but in my opinion, nothing that brought about real, lasting, positive change despite continuous suggestions and efforts by employees. Morale seems to remain at a deep deficit. I felt demotivated and unappreciated. Beyond that: -Management appeared fairly inexperienced in terms of actual managerial skills, providing little guidance or goals to help employees progress -Compensation is not great for the amount of responsibility and company revenue. In my experience, they did not follow through on raise/promotion expectations despite good performance and gave vague reasons to justify this. -I received no formal training or learning/development opportunities -Minimal PTO, no working from home allowed -Poor (often unprofessional) communication and transparency -I perceived no long-term vision or mission for the company -There seems to be an unspoken expectation for employees to work overtime. Leaving at 5pm is uncommon -Current office location is bad with long commutes, but may be moving downtown.

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Hyperikon Response
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Thank you for your honest and thought-provoking feedback of Hyperikon. We appreciate that you took the time to highlight the aspects of working with us that you enjoyed as well as the aspects that you think could use improvement. As you mentioned, we are proud of our hard-working team members, casual dress-code, relaxed environment, and challenging work that allows our employees to become diverse and versatile in their vocation. Due to the aforementioned advantages of working at Hyperikon, we have been happy to receive genuine and authentic reviews on this platform and can assure you that we would never engage in falsifying our own reviews. It is our sincerest intention to provide our employees with an awesome place to work. For this reason, we are always seeking employee feedback through anonymous surveys sent bi-weekly, one-on-one meetings, and department meetings. We do our best to hear our team's perspective because employee happiness is our priority. Our goal is to ensure engagement and satisfaction for everyone and it is difficult to hear that your experience reflected otherwise. As for management and leadership, we are always open to evaluating and improving our work and appreciate your candor. Thank you for your suggestions and for your time at Hyperikon, we considered you both an employee and a friend. We wish you the best in your future endeavors. Sincerely, Nicklas Brandrup, Co-Founder
1.0
19 Aug 2019

Honey, I promoted the kids

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Fast moving environment - Chance to work on interesting problems - Broad exposure to business regardless of role - Many employees are kind people - Management makes effort to engage employees outside workplace - Health Benefits offered (after probationary period) - Some free meals and beer

Cons

- Perpetual early-stage startup syndrome (Hyperikon has the institutional and infrastructural sophistication of a several month old startup - do not expect a business of scale) - Family owned (The founder put his sons in charge - your job is whatever they want it to be) - Poor leadership (Very little cohesive organization; employees are nominally encouraged to innovate while business choices are made by the family without exception) - Salaries are not competitive and substantive raises are contingent on hell freezing over; even the few long-term employees would not comfortable discussing compensation - Unprofessional compelled loyalty culture - people who leave for other opportunities are considered traitors and not spoken of well following departure -High turnover (Due to the above cons people only stay as long as it takes to be hired out; full-time work is augmented by low-paid interns) -Fake Glassdoor reviews (read the other reviews... "no cons...keep it up!" -- really? I mean, read Google's Glassdoor reviews. 4.4 stars -- not a single one without cons. Textbook review padding.)

5.0
6 Nov 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Growing and driven company that trust their employees and give them space to grow in their roles. Young minded culture with Yoga and lunch at the office. Managers are genuinely interested about their employers and their well being. Fun place to work!

Cons

Office located a little bit off, so traffic is bad, but there is lunch at the office and free parking space!

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