Beware of fake promises. - Software Engineer TableCheck Employee Review

1.0
9 Jun 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Remote working - Some of the team members are highly skilled people and lot to learn from them

Cons

One day, the CTO assures everyone that there are no redundancies on the horizon. The very next day, you get a call from HR informing you that your role has been terminated. To make matters worse, your immediate manager has no idea what’s going on and offers no guidance or support. Honestly, you might as well replace them with an AI bot if all they're doing is collecting status updates from the team every minute. Completely disappointing leadership and communication.

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TableCheck Response
9mo
Thank you for your frank feedback. It is true that in early 2025 we combined our Engineering and Product divisions as part of a larger rethink in how we operate as a company. As we moved to a leaner, less management-heavy structure, regrettably some roles in these divisions were made redundant. We tried our best to support everyone affected by this reorg. We'd like to extend a heartfelt apology to the poster as we clearly fell short in their case, and they were owed a lot more explanation and empathy in this situation than they received. We are committed to transparency and to learning from our missteps, both in how we run the business and in how we care for our people--especially in difficult and transitional periods. For readers evaluating our company today, we'd like to clarify that we do not have "frequent layoffs"--in fact we've had exceptionally low staff turnover. We've emerged from early 2025 with a renewed focus on stability, long-term growth, and building an environment where our teams can thrive.

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1.0
26 May 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Full remote policy. - There are some smart people trying to do meaningful work.

Cons

- Leadership neither understands how to scale nor believes it's necessary. This mindset has become the biggest obstacle to any real progress. - Intense micromanagement with no consistency. Priorities change constantly, communication is messy, and expectations are unclear. It gets so disruptive that most work become guesswork and damage control. - Plus, the product itself suffers from tons of legacy decisions. In result, things move 10x slower than normal and even simple features turn into turn into exhausting projects. - For sure every org has an “inner circle” and it’s understandable. But some individuals abuse this status to make others’ job a lot harder. This situation has persisted despite being well-known internally. - Psychological safety is an issue. Feedback is officially welcomed, but it’s often met with defensiveness so there's point doing so. Also expect public mockery and childish/unprofessional behavior. - Layoffs have occurred more than once, and there are growing concerns about company’s financials.

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TableCheck Response
9mo
Thank you for your frank feedback. You've raised many thoughtful points which our company takes to heart and deeply commits to improve. This year we've made organizational changes to become a leaner, more focused, and better-aligned company. We welcome applicants to speak openly with our team in job interviews, etc. about how we've evolved, the present experience of working at TableCheck, and where we’re headed in the future.
2.0
4 Jun 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

full-remote, flexible-hours*, Institutional knowledge*, kind people*, open communication*

Cons

flexible-hours -> explict no upward mobility without unpaid overtime institutional knowledge -> almost no learning opportunities as everything is on fire more than not on fire. kind people -> mismanagement, layoffs of capable people, and offering hush money to people who have been wronged. less good people. open communication -> they say you can be honest. say what you think and you will get made fun of, both to your face and behind your back, by management,

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TableCheck Response
9mo
Firstly, we'd like to offer a heartfelt apology to the person who wrote this review. Your experience working with us is one we don't intend anyone to have at TableCheck! We'd like to clarify several misconceptions in the original post. If the poster is still a current employee, we're genuinely concerned they may be missing out on what the company has to offer, and hope they will reach out to their manager/dept head to discuss. > "Explicit no upward mobility without unpaid overtime" HR actively monitors to keep overtime at a minimum; as of August 2025, our average monthly overtime was 3.65 hours per employee. Employees earn promotions based on performance, merit, and working efficiently--we consider excessive overtime as a demerit for advancement. Whether overtime is paid/unpaid varies by role/department/location/seniority/contract type/etc. In summary, TableCheck is committed to following market standards while offering flexible, comfortable, and fair conditions to all employees. > "Almost no learning opportunities" In our Innovation Division where engineering and product staff work: 1. We hold two weekly all-hands training sessions ("Innovation School"), covering diverse topics from coding/architecture, AI, product management, teach-ins on each other's work, etc. 2. We hold annual training events such as "TableCheck Cafe" (simulated restaurant role-play) and Hackathons. 3. Employees can claim a monthly education monetary stipend they can spend however they wish. 4. Employees are allowed up to 20% of their time (1 day a week) for freely-chosen projects and/or study. (In fairness we need to do better in encouraging employees to take greater advantage of this one!) 5. We make each employee's desired learning/career growth a core consideration when setting goals and assigning workload. > "Everything is on fire more than not on fire" By the numbers, TableCheck has excellent platform stability: 99.999%+ uptime and very low churn among clients. Our uptime is public at https://tablecheck.statuspage.io/. We achieve this through a culture of blameless retrospectives and continual improvement when issues do occur. If there are genuinely "frequent fires" in the poster's area--or even a perception as such--we'd really would like to hear specifics and take prompt steps correct it! > "offering hush money to people who have been wronged" We have not paid "hush money" to anyone, nor do we sign speech-restrictive agreements. (One can simply look at some of the other Glassdoor posts as evidence of this fact--we are very comfortable with transparency!) As with any company, there are inevitably situations where both we and a staff member agree it’s best to part ways. In such cases, we may provide severance and support to ensure the transition is fair and respectful. These arrangements are never about "silencing" anyone—they’re about helping people move forward in their career with confidence, and showing gratitude for their contributions.
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