AppDirect Reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(394 total reviews)
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Nicolas Desmarais

77% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

AppDirect has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 394 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AppDirect employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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394 reviews
1.0
3 Oct 2018

Senior Technical Support Engineer

Anonymous employee
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Pros

1)Awesome welcome by recruiter only on 1st Day. 2)Company have guts to open a branch in Pune Magarpatta. 3)Just to open start up in Pune, they hired a very good and talented people and paid a good amount of salary. 4) Six months base got strong and they got a good hold in Pune now. 5) Good Hopes Appdirect will be a part of Apple soon.

Cons

Guys here come the reality, 1) Do you want to enjoy for a day or for a longer period of time. 2)Company is not mentally strong, They don't want to grow as a profession, they can take decision at any point of time. They just want to do a business like a Marwadi. 2) Company don't want to grow as a big brand. 3) Cheap mentality, you have no idea they have already decided to keep you for a year only. Because they don't want to appraise. 4) like I said in Pros 4. Base is already strong and now they are using a fresher's to work on . 5) If you ever thing , WOW I got a good position with good salary in appdirect, it's just for less than a year my friend. 6) Germany Appdirect Employees are worst. They will never show in front of you. They guys are scared from Indians, that's is the reason they are preparing a draft for since you joined and you will never know it's the same german employee who trained you. 7) Indians got the best talent and very well productivity that is the reason you came here to open a start up. 8) Just checkout the history from midyear of 2016 to till date . How many employees has left. 9) Employees don't want to leave the organization., But company creating such situation in which you have one two option either you die or leave the job, Options is yours 10) Ask the employee I'd of latest employee and ask how many are currently working on. (Ex: Latest empid= 350, Current working = 85 ,) 11) It's means 265 employee has left the organization . You can also say appdirect fired them. 12) Don't you think it's huge number of ratio.265 employee or more than that in just 2.5 years.. 13) Just because of your pressure ,Few Indian senior employee are treating like a hell.they don't even deserve it to be in the organization. 14) Why don't you catch them, who are coming late ,going early, Just to show off shooting email to management in their night so that US management thinks ,wow we hired such a hard-working employee. 15) Amazing Politics

1.0
7 May 2018

Not good if you want to grow in your career

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free lunch and snacks. Good office facilities. One can learn to keep patience while working with dumb guys.

Cons

No job stability. They fire at will. Ex India engineering head was fired in a single day without giving anyone any notice. Organisation structure keeps changing frequently. They are still not able to come up with a good working model. Non technical QA leads who keep discussing household chores in office and simply disturb the surrounding area. Technical managers are actually non technical guys. So it gets really difficult to work with them. Delegation is one thing that they constantly do. No good work for India office. The tasty part of the pizza is eaten by the US/Canada office and leftovers are sent to India. Not a single manager takes any interest in improving this situation. The company favours "polish my boots and I will get you promoted" policy. It does not matter much if you do good work. All that matters is to be a yes-man here. HR talks too much but does nothing. In fact, the HR asked a few employees to post fake positive reviews on glassdoor. The initial glasssdoor rating was below 2, but with the help of fake reviews, they took it up to above 3. Similar to their product, they do jugaad here too. Too many meetings and that too at random times because of poor management. They know it is a problem, but still keep doing the same. Too much of poking from everywhere and everyone when you work on a certain task.

1.0
5 Apr 2017
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Pros

You will learn how to lie. How to make promises when you don't have authority. How to market yourself as a role model (talking and talking) to fool people to realize that they are actually trapped. How to create an atmosphere where you can't trust anyone . Nice environment to grow as a manager right ?

Cons

All talk and none of them are true. Top boss always busy talking his family success, personal success and all possible lies to different people at different times. Few of the employees are relatives and family members working as a spy to run the show in India. No transparency " be my yes man or get lost" environment. Production support work only for developers. Poisonous work environment, you will be rotten here but can't question about false promises.

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AppDirect Response
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Thank you for your feedback and I apologize for the delayed response. We are always striving to improve so we genuinely appreciate the feedback! Our priority is ensuring a fair and open workplace for everyone, so I am sorry to hear this is not what you experienced. We have put a larger focus on investing in manager and team training as well as team bonding activities, we want all team members to feel supported and trust in their fellow co-workers. Head of HR Niamh Dolan
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