Pros
I'll talk particulary about Bogotá, Colombia because I know that it may be very different on other offices. - Home office (not for everybody). - You're able to travel to other offices for work (not for everybody). - You can have stock options (not for everybody). - Pet friendly. - Wear whatever you want: pajamas, skirt, sporty, elegant. They don't care about your skin, your nationality, your tattoos, your piercings, your hair's length or color, sexual orientation, economic background, if you're married or single or if you're pregnant in the interview, just work! - There is a New Year's Eve Party (at least in Bogotá). - You learn a lot. - You get a great Lenovo Computer or a Macbook Pro (I think that the Mac is only for designers UI/UX, not sure). - Water machine and microwaves in the floors (In Bogotá). - You can have an additional Samsung screen, specially if you're a developer. - You can grow in your position and salary very fast (not for everybody). - You can move to other country from the 9 where Rappi is (not for everybody). - Nice chairs. - Free parking (not in all the countries there is enough space). - Experience and name in your resume from the Start Up from Latam with the fastest growth nowdays. - You don't feel stuck in the same job, since it has new services everytime, you will have different things to do. - They're very flexible: can't you arrive at 9 am? It doesn't matter. Do you need to go to the bank or to the doctor? It doesn't matter. Just, achieve your goals by the end of the period.
Cons
It's so sad that I'll be writing this when I though that I'd have a great experience in this company before being hired. This is the "New Unicorn" in Latin America with its most recent investment of $1200 million (EEUU) from SoftBank. When you realize that it happened after only 3 years of being founded, you think that you'll have amazing challenges and experiences here, but what you don't know is that after some time, you'll ask yourself how one of the most disorganized companies ever have achieved it. Rappi wants to become in the "Everything else store in LATAM" so, you know that you'll have an amazing name in your resume because they will continue growing like crazy (they're right now in 9 countries with so many services), you must also know that it has an expensive price: - Rappi is a company where the Human Resources Department is almost non-existent, they only know to send and grade assessments processes like crazy in order to hire people but they also have to eliminate every week a lot of people from their system because they keep firing them or because people keeps leaving. You get promises of benefits before getting the job that surely you'll never see. The good thing is that you get a Lenovo ThinkPad E480 with Intel i7 8th Gen and Ramdeom or you get a MacBook Pro, which is amazing. - Here, you don't even know what you have to do: you may have a homework one week and in the next week the leaders say that there are new things more important to do. - There is not team work culture at all; if you need something from somebody, you need to be very lucky if this person answers in Slack (the "WhatsApp platform" in the company) or their e-mail. Sometimes I tried contacting people through this platform and never got any answer, which makes the communication process so slow and it delays your tasks. Therefore, it's difficult to connect with other departments, it's really frustrating. If what you need is not helpful for the person you're talking to, you'll have to ask him/her around 10 times to get help: a favor becomes in a supplication. - You know what the other person is doing only if you hear what they are talking about with someone (because there are not offices or cubicles, only long tables where you don't have a permanent chair and place). What's the point about this? That sometimes, there are 2 or 3 teams working around the same thing and you didn't know it. For example: you were working in a new service proposal while other person or group was developing the same thing or something similar around the same problem. - One of the few benefits/perks is the "home office" option, but be careful, because the policies don't apply to all the workers. Some people leaves the office early but for other people it may be mandatory to stay until very late or work or answer e-mails on weekends. Some people can have "stock options" and other people can't; some people can travel to other countries with viatics and others can not. Who can do it? Guess it, because there are not clear policies. - Do you want to grow in the company? Well, there is not a clear career path. Some people get higher positions every 5-6 months and other people is stuck after 2 years working in Rappi. Also, you'll see people with similar or less responsibilities and experience than you gaining a lot more salary, it's something that makes you feel so unconfortable. - In my building the bathrooms and chairs are ok, but I know that in the other Bogotá's building and in other countries are really bad. I recommend going to check them if you have an on-site interview. - The people: there are talented and smart people, but there are people who don't know anything about their job or they’re not nice. There are some values in the company but HR only cares about finding in LinkedIn people with background experience in certain companies or people who got their degrees from certain elite universities, but in the selection process processes they don't check if that's a person who fits with the value's company. Just after getting the job, you get a welcome e-mail saying which are the values, aren't you a person who follows them in your life? It doesn't matter because it's just written for protocol.
