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      Good work culture, but needs more transparency - Software Engineer Shipium Employee Review

      4.0
      2 Dec 2022
      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Work culture was great. Everyone cared about the work being done, and open to new ideas.

      Cons

      Wish management was more transparent about those that were fired/laid off. High up managers were fired without a formal message to the team.

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      Shipium Response
      3y
      Thank you for taking the time to post this review. We work hard to ensure we have an open and collaborative work environment, and leadership and peers are open to new ideas, fresh perspectives, and encouraging everyone to share their ideas and opinions. Unfortunately, whenever there is an adjustment to the workforce, this information is not openly shared in advance. Whenever changes occur, we provide pertinent context to relevant staff, and are open for 1:1 meetings when appropriate. We do understand that making changes is extremely difficult and acknowledge we can learn and improve.

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      5.0
      10 Jan 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      The people, the leaders, and the product. It's a tough market in a volatile industry, but we're growing because our product is good and our people are great at all levels. The sheer breadth of cumulative knowledge everyone brings is beyond impressive.

      Cons

      Startup life. Juggling flexibility and process, prioritization and 100 competing requests. Not everyone can be cut out for it, but you'd be hard pressed to find a better crew to spend your work time with.

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      Shipium Response
      3y
      Thank you for posting! We appreciate the acknowledgement that our product and people are great - this is something we take tremendous pride in, and understand they are both core pillars of the organization. It is true that a startup environment is a bit different than a later stage, more structured org, but this is exactly what draws the level of people and expertise we currently have at Shipium. Every employee here has room to make an immediate and immense impact on the trajectory of the company, and we are all truly pulling in the same direction to build an amazing product. Everyone at every level rolls up their sleeves to get involved, and we heavily rely on cross-functional collaboration and communication to continue our success. As we continue to grow, we will always focus on our employee experience, our value to customers, and our credibility.
      2.0
      26 Jun 2026
      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      1. The core IT teams are highly talented, collaborative, and dedicated. 2. Prior to structural leadership changes, the company had a strong, healthy culture of open technical discussion.

      Cons

      1. Leadership & Culture: A restructuring shifted reporting lines under a new leadership for Engineering, which fundamentally altered the culture for the worse. Management shifted to a "my way or the highway" mentality. Honest, constructive pushback on ownership and architecture is met with systematic sidelining. 2. Sidelining & Exclusion: Rather than managing transparently, leadership used promotions and further re-orgs to isolate managers—purposely excluding targeted leaders from critical technical sessions and rendering 1:1 meetings entirely useless and devoid of feedback. 3. Ethics & Lack of Empathy: The most alarming aspect of the culture is how vulnerable employees are treated. The leadership has developed a model that sidelines people of color.

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      Shipium Response
      3d
      Thank you for sharing your experience. Reorgs are disruptive, and we take critical feedback seriously, especially on issues of equity and inclusion. We want to address the comment about how people of color are treated at Shipium directly. Building an equitable workplace is not a passive commitment for us. We have an employee-led DEIB committee that has been active since 2023, our leadership team recently completed an interactive in-person DEIB training, and we maintain an anonymous HR reporting tool available to all employees for concerns that feel difficult to raise directly. Anyone who has experienced what's described in this review is encouraged to use it. On culture: as Shipium has scaled, we've added more structure, clearer ownership, and stronger accountability. That's a deliberate and necessary evolution. We'd push back on the characterization that this means dissent isn't welcome. Healthy debate and technical pushback remain core to how we work. What's changed is that decisions get made and teams move forward and we think that's the right tradeoff at this stage of the company. We hear that the transition was painful, and we remain committed to holding leadership to the standards that got us here.
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