Do yourself a favor and absolutely do NOT work for this toxic company! If you want work-life-balance, mental health, respect from coworkers/managers or a decent salary or benefits, Revolut is NOT your company
I left after 6 months and I am now making 6 figures which you will never be able to do at Revolut.
-I have never earned so little in my entire career. I have 13 years work experience and a Master's degree. Even when you achieve 100% of your target, you can look at something like 2k before tax. Also the base salary is ridiculous. I only took this job because I was laid off, otherwise I would have never accepted this (especially because you also cannot negotiate). Such a disgrace!
-Managers keep insisting that the low salary is "market average", which means that they are completely clueless about the industry and reality. Revolut pays one of the lowest salaries in Sales that I ever came across
-Extremely complicated commission scheme that is tied to 5-8 other factors to just get it at all (AE Formular, Activity, Performance Grade etc). Just to compare with my current company: I will get commission from working there - as it should be. It goes up if 100%, 150% or 200% are achieved. Done! It could be so easy.
-This is the main reason for the extremely high staff retention: if someone works for Revolut for a year, they are considered a rarity. This is even mentioned in the global town halls. Most people try to make it to the 6 months mark, then they leave. 85% of my original team quit while I was employed and the others got fired. I had so many new colleagues in the meantime that I could not keep up with their names. Everyone came and left
-Toxic work environment: you are expected to work late and the tasks you are given make you stay online for up to 50hours a week - without a lunch break! If you take your break, you will add 5 hours to your total per week
-Managers are completely incompetent and have little to no skills. The Head of Sales in Europe did not know any of the abbreviations we were working with daily. Some people just made it into management because they either worked as AE's before and overachieved regularly (which does not mean that you are competent enough to work in management) or because they faked their way up
-It is allowed to use foul language and swear words if you are management. It is allowed to shout, abuse and swear in meetings and nobody will stop them. If you complain, you will get fired
-Managers are allowed to "transfer" accounts which lead to accounts and commission being stolen big time.
-Colleagues were stealing prospects on a regular basis
-Insanely high and unrealistic targets which make you work around the clock
-No proper training. You start off with 2 weeks where they squeeze everything in they got and then they expect you to know everything. I had to put in countless hours to keep up with programs, regulations and changes and I had to do this in my free time. There is no downtime given to study at all. I never came across something like this in over 13 years
-No growth options. The promotion process is complicated by choice and prohibits people from earning more and levelling up. Even overachievers are kept hanging by a thread
-Grievance cases are usually rejected with a good outcome only for the company
-Important departments are not responding in time or not at all: neither IT (we had a login issue that affected 60% of our customers and it was ongoing for more than 3 weeks so some of my clients lost over 100k in Crypto etc. – the management just did not care at all), neither HR (my laptop was picked up 3 months after I resigned, when I was already working for a new company) or other departments. They just do not reply!
-Little to no benefits
-Revolut only cares about making money, not about it’s people. You are a machine and a slave and you have absolutely nothing to say
