Spokn Reviews

I’ve been at Spokn for more than two years and I can say with confidence that this is the best company I ever worked for. Great product and team. A lot of growth in the last year but most importantly, they care about their people in a way I've never seen before. And they do it in actions not words. I want to share two quick stories about that; before the company got funded, the budget was very tight. I wanted to take an expensive class to enhance my skills and my manager said the company would cover it. I later found out from my manager that Fawzy (co-founder/CEO) personally paid for it from his own pocket. The second story happened when the company got its first big round of funding after 3 years (seed). In appreciation to the team's loyalty when things weren't going great, Fawzy surprised all the team in Egypt by giving every single employee stock options equivalent to one year's salary. He then extended that to new hires as well. The message was if new hires in the US are getting equity then so should Egyptian ones, so we don't have 'second class employees'. For context, this is unheard of in the Egyptian startup landscape, startups in Egypt offer stock options to their executives only. There are many other things that happened during my time at Spokn but the main takeaway is the founders are always doing their best to provide the best environment for their employees to grow and also share the success with them.

Since I was at the interview process, they were all very professional and inspiring. Like I thought even if I didn’t make to be accepted, I would have been honored to meet them all as they really left good motivational vibes after every phase of the interview. Spokn is developing over time, everyone is open for feedback and improvements, they do even encourage for expressing ideas and do their best to meet everyone’s expectations. They do care a lot for their employees and working on their benefits always and update them frequently to make things really competitive for everyone. The team is really friendly, from first time meeting them I felt like knowing them for years. The development team is really helpful and everyone shows support in a different way that made the team complete at the end. They always work on the employees feedback and take prompt crystal clear actions to meet the employees’ expectations. The management (especially CEO) focuses on keeping the whole company aligned with achievements, decisions and changes, which is already missed at a lot of places.