Adyen reviews

Take the negative reviews seriously, there's a strong running theme amongst the bad reviews and very apparent once employed. Regardless of which team you join, there is a push to spend your first few weeks doing coffee chats with people at the company. Culture fit is very important for this company, even more so than productivity, if you're not well liked you will not last here. If you're well liked but do no work, you may even be promoted and have a further leash to get away with things. Onboarding sets people up for failure, manager wasn't present at most team meetings or trainings. 1:1s spent in the wrong areas and feedback wasn't actionable. Sales managers are reliant on overseas training to fill the gap. Micromanagement to the point where all emails needed to be prewritten and copy pasted. Unfair, bias reactions of the same behavior from one employee to another. Blatant favoritism. Gossiping even at the management level. Not all managers practice what they preach. Often bad habits are displayed by upper management and learned by newer employee. For example, if the senior members and manager of the team are multi-tasking during meetings, the perception to newer employees is that it's ok. Basically, if they like you, you can get away with murder. If they don't like you, everything is an offense. You will be walking on egg shells because you never know when one thing is suddenly not ok or just a rule that applies to you. Andiamo! Andiamo! Because you're spending too much time building your personal brand vs doing your actual job. For a sales role, there are no metrics. This really means your job security is your relationship with your manager May be a pro or con, but there seems to be more opportunities for horizontal job growth than vertical. Senior members of the organization often complained about salary ceilings

I decided to write this review because the reviews that speak some truth are lost in between the “5-star” which all literally look the same and I don’t know how real they are. I feel responsible warning people before they decide to join. If you are above 30 or have more than 4 years of experience do not go and avoid at all costs. 1. Progress in the company is realized only if you praise and not question the founder and his small inner cycle. This has resulted in middle management comprising mostly by incompetent people who in some cases do not even know what their team is doing and literally add most of their value when they are on holidays. 2. There is no HR to coach on whether “Adyen culture” or “Adyen formula” is applied by both sides. They will only side with the people above. Do not go to them for help. 3. Company has some really good profitability at the moment with less evolved competition. Nevertheless, the funds are not invested to the platform or know/how, instead money are wasted primarily on vanity marketing and accounts. Moreover, money is used to silence people on severe malpractices of employment rules. 4. Lot of employees are disappearing suddenly without giving any feedback to colleagues or transition tasks. There are “rumors” for various cases of bad treatment and causes for strong psychological damage. Make sure to always have legal advice by your side. As I mention above money now is wasted just to silence people. If you get threatened do not back down and call a lawyer. 5. The 2 month probation period for new hires is actually a trial run. It is quite common that they will turn you loose if you don’t praise enough. One more reason not to risk changing job for Adyen. There is no such thing as performance. Handling the politics around the founder cycle will get you through. In summary, to get the right picture of Adyen imagine uneducated and untrained middle-high management combined with ego and money. In my opinion there are 2 scenarios. The first is that the company is getting restructured and releases people with the most despicable manner because disclosing publicly that they restructure would harm the hype/growth tale. The second is that higher management is completely incapable handling the size anymore and have gathered a group of “yes sir” people around and they only listen to them. No matter what applies, the fact is that the environment is severely toxic with lot of people starting therapy sessions and whoever speaks up is dismissed with the worst possible way. Regardless the news trend for Adyen, I would definitely not join an organization which treats people like dirt. There are still some teams which still hold the ship, read other review to see how to spot them but still its too big of a risk to join.