Coercive culture, cartoon-villain CEO, Michael Scott-style middle management - Product Owner Revolut Employee Review

1.0
Feb 8, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Revolut pay the high end of UK salaries, although globally, salaries are not at all competitive A good number of holidays but you will never get to use it given the coercive culture to work on holidays

Cons

Lack of trust from management, if things are blocked / going slowly, you are not asked why or how systems can be improved, you are instead simply forced to go faster or push others to work harder at the expense of their health. Micromanagement rules everything around here. Revolut style of management will remind you of Office Space or The Office, it is that cartoonish (you have to see it to believe it), except this is your real career you are dealing with and it is not really funny. For a tech startup, the product/ops manager to designer/engineer ratio is extremely high, every layer creating the illusion of getting things done (for performance reasons), but the true blockers lie further downstream that managers are either blind to or find it difficult to resolve as it is frowned upon not to "show progress" every week.

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Revolut Response
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Hi there, thank you for your review. Revolut has grown tremendously in a short span of time with the support of our Revoluters. We value our people and aim to support them. We're encourage people to put their health first despite their ambitions, and our trained Mental Health First Aider community is there for anyone who needs to talk, can advise people on how to cope with work pressures, and encourages them to take longer breaks to recharge. As Revolut's business and products evolve, we hope so has our inclusive culture. We set ourselves ambitious goals but we also want to understand what the roadblocks area and what we can change to make it easier to achieve those goals. We hope you'll consider raising your feedback internally with your manager or the people team so that we can do more to support you. Thank you for all that you do. We wish you well.

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