Greedy leadership, burnt out employees, heartless layoffs - Anonymous employee Hopper Employee Review

1.0
Apr 10, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Snacks - Fun Games nights - Genuine employees

Cons

- Leadership that flexes constantly when things are good, is silent when things go bad Lies about culture: - Touts being "customer obsessed" but treats the customer service team like garbage and has never given an indication of caring about whether customers get answered - Customer-obsessed, advertises no hidden fees, has an opt-in tip hidden below the fold to trick customers into paying $5 per passenger, per booking. - Mentions "data-driven culture", uses data from hidden, opt-in tip, as proof that customers want to give Hopper a tip - "Do the right thing" somehow translates to laying off 200+ employees during a global pandemic at the first sign of something bad, making customer service employees take pay cuts while leadership silent on whether they took pay cuts to help save more employees in a time when no one can hope to get a new job.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

pay, remote, some good/smart people in pockets

Cons

Senior leaders could not care less about employees and routinely make bad market decisions leading to foreseeable product issues and eventual layoff cycles. There was a time a few years back where employees criticized the dark patterns in the app - the president got pissed and said 'the data didn't show it was an issue', then a few months later when we got bad press about those patterns dismissed it as our competitors planting stories - sums up the culture pretty clearly.

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