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4.2

86% would recommend to a friend

(8,454 total reviews)
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Matt Barrie

91% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Freelancer has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 8,454 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Freelancer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personalwesen industry (3.8 stars).

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3.0
Sep 24, 2018

Past it's prime

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Pros

- Great name to have on the resume, as many have mentioned work here for a year and double your salary elsewhere - Smart, interesting colleagues - Hackathons when they do happen - Snacks and drinks, but don't let HR tell you that makes up for the below average salary - Very quick title and responsibility promotions - Never a dull day office gossip wise

Cons

Most recent reviews are fairly accurate. Personally the cons I experienced were: - Micromanagement, from direct managers, their manager and the CEO - Lack of direction and clarity on what they want you to achieve - No formal reviews or feedback process, therefore no way to get a promotion (not that they have budget for it anyway unless you threaten to resign) - Willingness of multiple managers to do dodgy things and try cover their tracks - Focus on revenue rather than the customer experience. Short term monetary focus rather than the longer term success, this has already been evident across many areas of the company and has burnt so many users - Boys club, understandable as a tech company that most engineers are male, but at least most companies are trying to rectify this. All male product managers too. Hiring female account managers or accounting staff doesn't really fix the inherent problem. But at this rate this is the last of their worries. - Other things where you'd get fired at any other company like harassment, bullying, verbal abuse, get belittled by senior management etc.

3.0
Jun 19, 2018

Great tech company with a egotistical CEO

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Pros

- Great community of talented people - Hosts lots of tech talks - Beer fridge always full and food provided by the company for overtime work - Great staff parties

Cons

- Managment doesn't give any constructive criticism about work produced. Only complains. - CEO Matt Barrie thinks he knows everything. He really knows his tech but his talent in marketing is terrible. - Management plays favorites - It's a boys club - Managment is very disorganized and tells you one thing but does the other. - Their turnover in staff is terrible and the company has a history of firing without reason.

1.0
Jul 25, 2016

Shame

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Pros

I can't really think of any reasons except like any job I am paid I guess.

Cons

I feel ashamed to work here. We are literally trained to manipulate and scam those that use the site. I have been told repeatedly to hide information in "hard to find" sections of the site in order to confuse users and promote unauthorised charges on credit cards etc. The company directors do not care in the least for the actual users of the site - they are happy to benefit while they can even though we are constantly reviewed extremely low on all tech / design sites. I am embarrassed to be here and am looking for other employment.

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