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      Phrase

      Acquired by The Carlyle Group

      Engaged employer

      Phrase Reviews

      3.7

      70% would recommend to a friend

      (81 total reviews)
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      Georg Ell

      81% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Phrase has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 81 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Phrase 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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      81 reviews
      2.0
      18 June 2024

      Cannot recommend based on the last 1.5 years

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Still, the majority of people are nice to work with. A good amount of days off as a benefit.

      Cons

      The main con is that the C-level has no interest in their teams and abandoned the employee-first approach: firing on the spot, decreasing benefits, and openly stating that salaries won't be raised even for over-performers thus expecting employees to continue with below-average and non-competitive salaries. A lot of changes happen fast and without a clear plan that does not benefit the company long-term. The goal is only quick revenue. That results in confusing and unsatisfying short-term goals, and not finishing projects. All that adds unreasonable workload and stress while KPIs are set a lot above the SaaS average.

      2.0
      28 May 2024

      Great people, terrible leadership

      Elixir developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      The industry is really interesting.

      Cons

      Salaries are not great. But mostly, leadership has completely lost it, slashing benefits left and right and just jumping on the AI train shipping half-functional features. There is an absurd amount of bureaucracy added, everything needs to be measurable and micromanaged and it's just not a joy to work.

      3.0
      1 July 2022

      Not great, Not terrible

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Healthy core of the company, not broken by new management so far. Most of the teams are running on healthy tech stack with ability to share knowledge and tooling. Very good experience from response on big security vulnerabilities (like log4shell, spring boot, ...). Lot of clever people to work with.

      Cons

      10x motto -> let's have 1 hour long presentation per 5 minutes of information. Random project prioritization usually there is like 5-10 top priority projects at once (4 different frameworks to plan goals fighting with each other). New company benefits like flowerpot or company day off planed on Saturday or on public holidays. Previous company values (agreed by all employees) thrown away and new company values have been chosen by few managers - effort to redefine the company culture from the top.

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