Onramp Lab Reviews

2.9

34% would recommend to a friend

(19 total reviews)

35% positive business outlook

Onramp Lab has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 19 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there.

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19 reviews
2.0
4 Sept 2018

What Can We Get Away With?

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- A generally friendly work environment with a good sense of humor in the office. - Free snacks and coffee, with regular treats - Staff parties with drinks and games

Cons

- Exploitative CEO who purposefully pays below-legal wages to non-Americans/non-Europeans (Latin-American staff and local Taiwanese are on almost half of what Taiwanese labor law stipulates as a legal wage, regardless of qualifications or experience) - CEO actively engages in seriously unethical business practices regarding the abuse of consumer data for credit-based services; happily sells spy cameras and phone spying software to encourage parents to spy on their children and spouses to spy on their partners, with little regard to ethical implications, as long as there's a dollar to be made. - Complete disinterest in employee concerns regarding business practice and direction. Your job is to listen to what the higher management (CEO) wants, regardless of whether the position is senior or not. - Numerous complaints about many of the issues stated above were brought to management and ignored. "Profit over people" explains Onramp's overall mentality and incredibly high turnover rate.

2.0
1 Jan 2019

Much Room For Improvement

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- It starts out nice. There were great coworkers and some of the managers were helpful. - Snacks, happy hour and free massage - You get assigned various tasks. Doesn't matter your position, you can try a bit of everything.

Cons

- They have way too many products, which isn't a bad thing, but they do not try to improve the products. When you give them feedback about a certain product, they don't care. All they care about is making money and it's super unethical. They are getting into a bunch of legal issues as well. If you search up KidGuard scam, you will see all those complaints. - The pay is not ideal. Foreigners are getting paid less than they should and as another review mentioned, Taiwanese are getting paid even less. - Don't expect people to teach you much. A lot of people don't even know what they are doing. You are asked to do a little of everything (which can be good) but, when you ask for help, no one knows what is going on. - The CEO likes to message people on weekends or late at night. You do not get any overtime pay, but you are expected to attend meetings at anytime of the day and possibly even work on weekends. No clocking in or clocking out so the schedule is somewhat flexible, but don’t expect additional pay for your hard work. - The CEO favors foreigners or expats and often has special events where only part of the office is invited. Expats get to attend a dinner where none of the taiwanese workers are invited. There was one event where part of the office went and the other half didn’t. So part of the workers get paid to have fun, while the others stayed in the office and actually did work. - Management/HR has been unprofessional. Most of them are nice people. A lot of them will listen to what you have to say, but then they take no action. As long as they favor someone, they will overlook any crucial mistakes. Also, HR seems to be unfamiliar with labor rules and does not take employee feedback seriously. When management decides to fire employees, it seems most of it is personal rather than performance based.

4.0
9 Feb 2021

Solid Job for Taiwan

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Worked at OnRamp for a year as a non-Taiwanese. - work is quite easy (to the point that it can be monotonous). Pop on a podcast, fill out some excel tables or write some marketing copy. Despite the talk of "hustle" in the office, day to day is quite chill. - Work hours and environment are incomparably better than the vast majority of Taiwanese managed businesses. OnRamp gives out a number of extra holidays, such as not requiring employees to work on Saturdays when CNY or other national holidays would otherwise require it - Management is friendly, approachable and generally cares about employees. This is in direct contrast to most Taiwanese firms where personal insults and shouting at employees are the norm. - office can be great fun, especially as an expat. Lots of drinking and opportunities to go out to eat, many of which are paid for by the company. Doubly true if you become friendly with management - much better than teaching children. It's an actual white collar job that teaches you marketing skills, especially if you display competence and willingness to learn

Cons

- low pay across the board, though if you're in Taiwan to make lots of money, you're there for the wrong reasons. It was enough money for me to enjoy myself in Taipei, but I had nothing left over at the end of each month (and had one scary week when I ran out of cash completely) - some of the portfolio companies are really, really scammy. They have little growth potential and are just a bummer to work on. - on the other hand, the company seemed to be shifting towards becoming an agency (acting as a marketing consultancy for legitimate businesses) and those products were pretty cool

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