RevoU Reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(75 total reviews)

Matteo Sutto

79% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

RevoU has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 75 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RevoU employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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75 reviews
1.0
13 Dec 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- The working from anywhere (WFA) setup has been designed from scratch for the company. - Additional Self Development allowance is quite nice - Very positive coworkers (not the management though)

Cons

After multiple companies, multiple years of working, and several years of working in RevoU, It surprised me that a company so positive, so fun, and even I had mentioned it as one of the best companies I've ever been with, turned 180 degrees so quickly become one of the worst companies I've ever been with, in just 1 year. This company is managing something that's getting out of hand and then it shows the true nature of the company. First, the true nature of the company business. It was suspected that the business model was poor to begin with and that was hidden by its growth in the growth era. The management comes from marketing thus the main theme for the company is always towards marketing activation and small to none investment in R&D, products, and others. The company are unwilling to hire someone proper and unqualified employees were pushed into something that they didn't have the skill. Is this a good business approach? Second, the true nature of the management The company is managing something that is getting out of hand and now it shows the management's incapability, immature, and poor management that are present everywhere. The company went from spending lots of money in community events conferences etc and then announcing that they just don't have the money and we have to conduct lay off in no time. But then, the company announced a promotion to several employees that were close to the C level, only a month after the layoff. While the workload from the OPS staff is increasing, the stress is increasing but they decided to promote the upper management. What do you think this shows? Third, the true nature of the operations and product. The company is heavily invested in part-timers. They rely on speakers to deliver the material, and even to develop to assist the curriculum creation. They rely on practitioners to become the mentors for students, thus the product itself is based on the part-timers and it is quite hard to be standardized. If you get a good speakers, good mentor you'll be having a good time but if the speakers & mentor are busy or underperform due to their full time jobs, then you'll likely to have a poor to average experience despite paying a premium price. Thus, there's a short career path for a full time employee and there's a highly dependancy on part-timers that are starting to complaint as the workload for part-timer are increasing. It was an unpleasant experience from inside and outside. What these conditions tell you? Fourth and last, the true nature of the corporate culture Toxic positivity is your best friend in this company. Everything was sugar-coated, everything was supposed to be happy and there was no room for complaint, and asking for a critique despite their value was candor. Employees, have to agree to the decided action by management which does not involve any inputs from the operational staff despite their hobby to micro-manage each inch of your task and asking to write a report here and there that contain same insight only in a different format. What culture/behavior do you think this is?

2.0
14 Nov 2023

Great to contribute, not really as a full-timer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I always love the people I work with at the company. Their positive attitude, their growth mindset, their lets-do-it-together and lets-learn-together attitude, and there's always room to make mistakes, learn from the mistakes, and grow. RevoU was a dream company to work before.

Cons

After a year of working there, everything changed drastically. Who would even imagine that the best place to work will be the worst nightmare? Forecasting what is potentially needed in the future is kind of my specialty, but seems like when the change management happened, the management totally didn't know what to do or where to go. They ruined the system that has been built and made decisions without doing research. Everything was in chaos. The worst part is, they didn't really know how to do manpower planning. The promotion was based on who was closer to the upper management, not because of their credibility or experiences. People who have no expertise in something are given the responsibility to take care of what they haven't experienced. Too many reporting tasks and redundant meetings, maybe for the sake of collecting data, but one who was suppose to find new insights doesn't really know how to read the data. Toxic positivity is everywhere.

2.0
30 Aug 2023

from feeling proud, to feeling disappointed

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It started out okay, the company was in a good state, everyone was happy. The culture was great. I was VERY proud to be a part of the company, surrounded by really smart & amazing people. We can work from anywhere, no micro managing. Life was very well balanced. The first year was the best. BUTTTTTTTTT

Cons

It all went down the drain. The management is too focused in getting more students (high admission target) without considering the quality of the students. The people in upper management always alwayysss make decisions without actually knowing what happens in our day to day job, without knowing the technicality. And they keep making changes and restructuring, test this mechanism, test that mechanism, but in the end the result from the testing was useless because we went full scale with another whole different mechanism. In the end, it was really tiring to work here. Performance Review was unfair. I raised my concern, I even had a counter meeting with my direct report, still nothing changed. With a bad PR, I couldn't ask for a salary adjustment even when I was given more responsibility. Ops team worked really hard to build this and that from 0. Everyone was overworked. One time we worked for 16 hours a day because of the new mechanism, so many things to prepare. Yet somehow, they still think they had too many people in Ops and people got laid off, regardless of all the hard work and contributions made.

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