Bad management, poor HR practices, would avoid - Anonymous employee Revolut Employee Review

2.0
Apr 18, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Depending on the team you join, you can work on some v. interesting projects that have big biz impact (even as a new joiner) 2. Processes are coming into place: working practices are efficient and agile which feeds into the rapid results-driven mentality/culture. This is good for a startup as ambitious as Revolut. 3. Flat hierarchy, but as the company continues to grow and teams expand, this is likely to change 4. Work-life balance is not bad at all for a startup.

Cons

1. *BIG CON*: will fire staff with zero warning + zero transparency. Ie. no past written documentation needed / review history, no vetting of actual reviews submitted by 'managers', no regard for whether or not KPIs have been met etc. Immature management; HR rather clueless/black box. 2. Many instances of 'managers' that are extremely inexperienced and have zero prior leadership experience (leading to 1.) - and do not seem to be interested in leading or people management. Can be very unlucky for those assigned to these managers upon joining. 3. Some service/business teams lack an actual sense of business strategy - leads to disjoined management within teams and lack of clarity (thus, inefficiency + waste).

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Revolut Response
6y
Thank you for your honest review. We appreciate your taking the time to give us feedback about your experience. Like any startup, we've got some growing pains. We've been working on improving HR processes, and making them more transparent and accountable. This year, changing business needs have meant a reorientation of priorities. We pride ourselves on being agile and able to move proactively, instead of sticking rigidly to goals that are no longer relevant to delivering the best possible product to our customers. We're always working on improving our internal communication to make sure all our teams know what our big picture aims are. We're working on supporting our management with a dedicated guild and Management and Leadership Development Manager providing plenty of relevant training modules and other support.

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