wefox reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(152 total reviews)
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Mark Hartigan

19% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

wefox has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 152 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The wefox employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Seguros industry (3.6 stars).

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152 reviews
1.0
Sep 7, 2020

Snake nest

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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It used to be really nice, until they ruined it

Cons

Lying to employees, lying to investors, greedy and really unprofessional. Imagine running a company where just within a few months you have burned bridges with every single employee. There was a merger between some departments and they had to let some people go. Were they clear about this? No. What was the message? They said how no one will get fired and how company isn't affected by covid. Were people fired? Yes. They handled it very dishonestly and sneaky. I guess fox in the name fits the business itself. CEO of the company is a laughing stock who is hiding his insecurity behind “mindfulness”. COO and many other c-level come from an industry that has nothing to do with start-ups. CPO is a consultant who sold herself as a product expert. She is equally clueless like the rest of them who hired her. Don’t be fooled by their message about advanced technology, there’s nothing advanced about it. There's barely any technology. The reason why company is so big is because they have a lot of bloated supporting departments who are doing manual work where technology failed them. This year business decisions just confirm how this will keep on happening because wrong people with a wrong mindset are in charge. Running a corporation pretending is a startup. If you care about your career growth, you better look for something else. There’s nothing to do here and it’s just a matter of time when it will all be shut down. Current employees are completely unmotivated and their only hope is in finding another job soon.

1.0
Jan 24, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- The colleagues in your team are good people and your direct boss is a good lad

Cons

- During summer 2020, the 2 branches of the company were merged, and management keep saying for the whole time that nobody was going to be fired, although clearly there were overlaps. Management kept saying nobody was going to be fired even during the firings themself. The counter of the employes number in personio disappeared, to hide the numbers to the remaining employes. Probably they think people are stupid and not going to notice, since we are all working from home. Many people had their company chat disabled before being fired, to avoid write unpleasant things to colleagues. Some colleagues discovered people were fired because they didn't show up to a meeting scheduled the day before. - For all the people fired, the word "fired" has never been used. It was decided to let them go (like they were prisoners), or they decided to leave (after scheduling a meeting with me for the day after?) - About the work from home: this is great and was allowed and encouraged from day 1 of the pandemic. What is not clear is why the company continued ever since to rent 2 big floors in Barcelona and 2 (or 3? I don remember) floors in Berlin, despite the floors are empty, also it was said that after the pandemic was still possible to continue to work from home for who wants it. Following an internal investigation was clear that we don need multiple floors in neither office. They continues to be open (often with only 1 person inside), with heat and electricity turned on. Wasting money, energy, and making management look dumb. Specifically for the software developers joining the company, my advice is to look elsewhere. At the moment there is a big technology stack that is only maintained to carry on with the business as usual, but every big development or improvement on it is forbidden because there is a replacement being developed with more solid technology. The only issue is that: - the objectives of this new technology stack keep changing every week - the morale is at ZERO because of random people being fired despite doing a good job - CEO is a big kid which has no idea how to run a company. - I guess the investor money is finishing and this time they are not going to get more (unless investors are really stupid)

1.0
Jun 10, 2023

Abandonship

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Only if you are a junior Software Engineer you will learn something new.

Cons

One by one all C-level people are leaving. Principal and Seniors leaving. Every 2 months layoffs. Tech is based in Spain. Knowledge is average at most and most people lack English abilities. Poor salaries and bad management. This is a sinking ship. They sell the idea of creating a "new" platform, but there is no talent to reach there, and they don't invest in good Engineers. All they do is to pose happy for news articles about having more money, but is rotten inside and money only flows to executives.

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wefox Response
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Thanks for taking the time to leave your feedback! We’re sorry to hear about your concerns. We take great pride in our talented and diverse teams brought together from all over the world delivering towards our ambitious plans. We work hard to select the best and brightest people, like you, to join wefox. We are all working hard to grow both personally, and as a company, in order to achieve the scale we are aiming for. Everyone brings a different perspective and talent to the team, which is what makes wefox special. As with everything we do in wefox, we focus on consistent improvements which is why we appreciate and welcome your feedback. Please reach out to our People team if you would like to start a conversation about how we can continually improve your experience at wefox. Thank you for your contribution.
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