None of the positive things mentioned above are true anymore. A series of management changes over the last few months revealed the true face of the company. The new management only needed 3 months to establish an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty and doubt. People were fired without notice for "questioning authority" after they gave the wrong kind of feedback. Others were threatened and told that their only job is to follow orders and not question their superiors. The whole Product & Development department got lectured on which kinds of feedback are allowed and which can get you fired.
Most of the people in the development team have already left or are in the process of leaving. There seems to be some interest in rebuilding the team from scratch, but it's questionable whether the people currently in charge of that effort will manage to find adequate replacements for all the people who are leaving, at least within the foreseeable future.
In general, there seems to be no empathy left for employees, and the rest of fun and exciting startup atmosphere has vanished. Plus now there's even less of an idea how to become more than a clone of Airbnb, which the company has been struggling with for the last three years. There's no innovation, no interest in improving the product, no vision and no leadership.
The most valuable thing I learned here is: Don't work for a company that doesn't have a convincing genuine idea at its core. Wimdu definitely doesn't have one. And what's worse, it isn't even trying to find it (anymore).
