Andela reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(994 total reviews)

Carrol Chang

68% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Andela has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 994 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Andela employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Recursos humanos industry (3.8 stars).

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994 reviews
2.0
Oct 27, 2022

Laid off for cuts

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Pros

Some people in the Company are great and you can find friends and not just colleagues

Cons

They talk about honesty and transparency but it's not exactly as it seems. Communication is a big miss from the leadership team, not showing any interest in supporting employees in the most needed times. Unfortunately, some people on the team have been laid off despite performance and targets being overachieved. Accounts have been deactivated 1 hour after the communication has been given, not even giving time for people to say bye to anyone or give a handover or anything at all. Something needs to change because there have been multiple layoffs during the last years and despite the investments, Andela is not growing as it looks.

1.0
May 21, 2019

Due diligence on this company is imperative, very disappointing

Anonymous employee
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Pros

As a former employee, anything that is good about this company gets devoured by the overpowering and deplorable wrong , Andela should be ashamed. In all fairness I don't want to move forward without saying everything that is honorable is sitting on the African continent, yet this is not were any of the power or decisions are made, as the majority of the c-suite sits in the US, and none are of African descent.

Cons

Honestly, looking over previous reviews they are all appropriately true, not scorned employees but actual truths. The c-suite of Andela has positioned the company to seem as if it is grounded in support of equaling the reach of talent, when it is truly appropriating talent. While working with Andela much of what I thought they were pioneers in, from what they were claiming, like: "We provide the data and tools you need to quantify output and understand the impact." There are systems that are white-labeled that do this, so what are you claiming? Here are some other statements any candidate or investor should take a much deeper dive into: "Andela invests in Africa’s most talented software engineers", Question: Are the engineers required to pay anything in return to work with Andela since your investing into them? "With thousands of data points on each of our developers, and hundreds of successful placements to date, we match you with the right engineers for your team." Question: How can you have that many developers available and ready to partner on a team? "How we develop developers, The world needs more great software developers. We already figured out what it takes to create them. " Question: You create talent? Honestly, I could go on and on but allow me to close with. My largest and the most egregious fact about Andela is somehow, (I was so shocked at what I witnessed durning my time with Andela), this company which allows statements of it being an African company, does not value the Black or African Americans within the company and has made it very obvious that there is a limited amount of growth for them in the work place. Just take a look into the US operations.

1.0
May 25, 2021

Run as far away as you can

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are NO pros other than it looks good on a resume. The “positive” reviews written here were clearly incentivized employees that currently work at the company and should probably not be trusted.

Cons

Textbook definition of a toxic work culture. Favoritism is their thing, don’t expect to ever get promoted. Managers are awful, culture is awful. Leadership is rude. Do yourself a favor and do not even consider working here, your well-being is far more important than considering joining a company culture like this.

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