A sinking ship sailing away from innovation - Product Management PayByPhone Employee Review

1.0
11 Apr 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Great people on the ground that care (at least the ones that are left) - Brand new fancy office opening by late 2022

Cons

- Very old boys' club SLT with a top down org structure. Ground level workers have very little say and their opinions often go unheard. - Subpar salaries and benefits far below the current industry standard - High attrition rate - Tons of tech debt - dealing with tech debt is the current priority, without much forward vision about new product launches  - Very siloed departments and lots of chaos without developed processes - Brand new office digs means that full time remote work is probably going to be off the table in the future

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PayByPhone Response
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Thank you sincerely for your review. Up until Fall 2021 we were in rapid growth-mode and with that came lots of excitement but also growing pains- we agree we had opportunities for improvement. To address these and stabilize our retention and improve work-life balance, in 2022 we have centralized our functions across North America and Europe with senior leaders from all locations meeting monthly to share and collaborate, fine-tuned our areas of focus (lesser OKRs and very disciplined collaborative quarterly and sprint planning across multiple divisions and inter-departmental teams), standardized our vacation program to 4 weeks for all to start, reviewed everyone’s compensation, introduced quarterly pulse surveys and focus groups for faster responses to current needs, mindfully back-filled roles, and introduced Remote-First while still enabling on-site collaboration from our Yaletown office. We are not done in our efforts to improve. We sincerely thank you for your contributions while with us and wish you the very best in your next adventure!

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