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private:tooploox
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1303616
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Jan 19th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Tooploox
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Software Engineer
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Warsaw
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Great people, interesting projects, relaxed atmosphere
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* Competent, passionate people
* Interesting projects from US
* Holacracy - you don't have a manager
* True freedom of where and when you work
* Competetive salaries
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* Holacracy doesn't always work, in times of pandemic enduced danger founders let go of some employees, without an inclusive process.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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5.0
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1303616
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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2.0
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Tooploox
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private:tooploox
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1303616
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Dec 2nd, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Tooploox
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Plooxie
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Wrocław
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The Teal I would not recommend
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- flexibility of working hours
- possibility to test your mental resilience
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- makes you lose a piece of yourself in terms of self-esteem, the value of your competences, and confidence in your intuition and yourself
- mediocre projects
- average earnings
- no actual development opportunities (cause development paths do not exist there)
- feedback culture on the surface, backstabbing, manipulation or even mobbing on the inside
- no real influence and autonomy due to micromanagement and lack of trust
- no consistency in strategy, application of holacracy
- afraid of making tough decisions
Just as the information passed to the candidates during the recruitment process do not meet the reality, the ideas on which Tooploox was meant to be built, are lost.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1303616
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Open
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Start to be really transparent and open, don't shy away from making tough decisions - they are part of business, and do not try to avoid consequences, they are yours, just like the business.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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4.0
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Tooploox
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private:tooploox
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1303616
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Dec 2nd, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Tooploox
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Digital Marketing Manager
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Warsaw
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Great place for personal growth
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- independence at work
- great atmosphere
- friendly co-workers
- easy access to all necessary tools (software and hardware)
- lots of days for self-learning
- good and competitive salary
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Try and take better care of employees who work remotely full-time
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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1303616
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Open
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It's great that the management always listens and has open door for everyone. But sometimes it lacks the decisiveness to actually turn this feedback into actions.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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1.0
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Tooploox
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private:tooploox
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1303616
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Nov 27th, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Tooploox
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AI/ML Engineer
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Warsaw
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Continues to be a great company to work for
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I’d like to share my review of the company to counterbalance the recent three negative reviews which paint in my opinion an unfairly negative picture of the company. It’s made from the perspective of a person from the AI team. It contains a standard review of the company and also addresses issues mentioned in the negative reviews (in the Cons section).
Pros:
* Work flexibility - you can work pretty much where and when you want as long as you arrange it appropriately with your team and the client (meeting times that fit everybody, etc.). This was the case even before the pandemic.
* Great, easy to work with people, eager to help when you have a problem. This is probably related to the recruitment process where the team fit is an important factor that gets considered.
* Learning opportunities: experienced people to learn from (including many people with PhDs) and some knowledge sharing initiatives (e.g., a weekly reading club meeting in the AI team).
* Focus on letting the developers make their own decisions instead of micro-managing them. This requires taking greater responsibility for what you do and being proactive, but in my opinion it works very well in practice and people like it.
* World-class Machine Learning research produced by some of the people in the AI team as demonstrated by many publications at the top scientific conferences (NeurIPS, CVPR, etc.). You can check the list of the publications on the company's webpage. People do the research mostly when they have some free time between the client projects.
* A nice perk of three days for self-development each quarter (and there are some other standard perks).
* Flat organizational structure so you’re not buried under layers of management.
* The leadership strives for transparency of decision making (e.g. shares notes from top-level meetings) and accessibility to various company data (financial results, sales results, etc.) so everyone is informed about what’s happening. Sometimes I think this might be too much (the company all-hands meetings are held every two weeks). They’re also always open to feedback.
To sum up, in my opinion, work flexibility and a great atmosphere are the greatest advantages of working in Tooploox.
Neutral:
* An average salary when compared to the Polish IT market. I consider it neither a pro nor a con since the salary is simply at the average market level.
* Holacracy is used as a system for organizing the company. It makes the responsibilities more distributed throughout the organization than in traditional, more hierarchical structures. A disadvantage is that it takes some additional effort to learn how it works. Some people like it, some don’t but you get used to it after an initial period. The advantages from a point of view of an employee are that it provides greater visibility of the decision processes and gives individual contributors more opportunities to affect the decisions. Holacracy also encourages people to provide feedback on the things they don’t like; this gets considered and the company makes efforts to address it.
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Cons:
* It’s difficult to climb the career ladder due to a flat organizational structure. However:
- You regularly (~ once a year) get a rise that (at least in theory :P) should correspond to the increased seniority.
- You naturally acquire more responsibilities in time. Your official position name doesn't really change, but you might be assigned a new Holacracy “role” in order for it to better “map the reality.”
- Due to flexibility within the organization, you can get involved more in some administrative activities or sales processes etc. if you feel like it.
- Recently an effort has been started in order to introduce a career ladder in the company to accommodate people’s needs in this area.
* Most projects are short (less than half a year).
* There is no common quality standard across AI projects (like a mandatory code review). The quality standard in a project depends on the project team and/or the client.
Response to the issues mentioned in the negative reviews:
* Mediocre projects, a greedy approach of the management with a focus mainly on increasing sales at the cost of employee satisfaction.
- Response: Some projects are more interesting, some are less but in general I think they are Ok. However, employee satisfaction is also taken into account and there were cases when a client project was shut down because the developers were not satisfied.
* You have an old laptop.
- Response: From what I’ve seen, you can get new hardware without any problems.
* People were let go at the beginning of the pandemic and there was no profit share during this time.
- Response: True, these were some of the pandemic-related cost-cutting activities at that time. However, the people that were let go left on pretty comfortable conditions.
* Large turnover lately
- Response: It seems to be true. It seems to be related to the cost-cutting activities that were introduced during the pandemic.
* It’s difficult to get promoted.
- Response: It’s largely true. See my comments in the other section for more discussion about that.
* Tooploox does chaotic moves that are hard to explain.
- Response: This is just like in other companies - various things are tried, some don’t pan out. Maybe the reasons behind some of them weren’t communicated well enough.
* The Holacracy system for managing the company is akin to dungeons & dragons role-playing games.
- Response: There's some truth to that :) Holacracy has some advantages though. You can mostly ignore it if you prefer to focus on technical activities (and some people do).
* Management blinded by their own egos and greediness.
- Response: Definitely not from what I’ve seen.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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4.0
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5.0
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1303616
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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4.0
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Tooploox
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private:tooploox
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1303616
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Nov 27th, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Tooploox
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Sales
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Wrocław
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Great company with interesting projects
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Great atmosphere
Transparency
Self-development
Inspiring people
Good salaries
A lot of activities outside of work
Employee happiness is a priority
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Flat structure might be a con for some people
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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1303616
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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1.0
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Tooploox
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private:tooploox
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1303616
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Oct 8th, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Tooploox
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Senior Software Engineer
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Warsaw
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Not the company it used be
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People (still, thankfully)
Remote work - not as important as it used to be, nowadays the majority of companies have learned to accomodate it
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- salary below market average
- mediocre (at best) projects - sometimes you're working on a project alone, sometimes it's just a body leasing to client or a friendly software house - often you work for tooplox, but feel like you work for someone else, but on worse conditions than his/hers in-house devs
- as a software engineer, you have a 2015 macbook and you wait for a project to compile for 5 minutes, while some PMs have brand new, more powerful macbooks to browse jira
- in april, people were let go without any warning whatsoever - measures to address the pandemic, while a moment later - in Q3 - the company had record revenues
- you think there was some PR damage control then? no, company tries to force a new contract on developers with NDAs that includes fines that go up to hundreds of thousands pln [we had none before]
- a twice-a-year profit share, meant to motivate people, was cancelled and cancelled in a period that would count for the share, not before it began
- flat structure, which might be a plus in some cases, turns out not to work in practice - when you're a senior developer, you'll be in the same position forever, there's no way to be promoted, to grow
- and if you do grow technically, nobody will care if you're a good dev or a brilliant one - a thousand pln/year raise is, whatever you learn in between, a VERY SIGNIFICANT raise and you should be happy if you got it
- tooploox went from a very, very low turnover, to loosing 25 people in 9 months - and the owners remain oblivious to what happened while most employees clearly know what changed
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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4.0
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1.0
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2.0
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2.0
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1.0
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2.0
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3.0
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1303616
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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0.0
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Tooploox
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private:tooploox
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1303616
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Jul 3rd, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Tooploox
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Software Developer
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A super-market where you can buy your own engineer to mown your lawn
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1) A very unique atmosphere and still some great people on board
2) Some perks, such as 3-days for self development each quarter are great.
3) If you are a veggie hipster millennial, who comes to the office wearing a winter cotton cap (in the summer) and wire-frame glasses, you blindly believe in everything what comes from the US, you may actually enjoy working in Tooploox for some time. However as soon as you turn 20 years, you normally stop.
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1) First of all, most of the other reviews are an effect of some internal marketing initiative. Just check the dates. It’s hard to believe the people suddenly started to post reviews at the same day.
2) The fast expansion was a stroke of lack rather than an effect of wise decisions and long term strategy. Tooploox was happy enough to start a cooperation with a fast growing startup which helped a lot in growing the company, but it seems like they have no idea what to do next - there is plenty of nervous and chaotic moves, which are hard to explain.
3) They focus mainly on increasing sales: it’s really dangerous as what they sell are the engineers. Literally they treat engineers as something they can sell. There is plenty of people stuck or made to join projects way below their competences. Usually there are short term projects related to parts of the system the client doesn’t want to handle on his own. Plenty of people also left recently. Probably plenty more to do so.
4) Dungeons & dragons way of running the company - so called holacracy. You need to fill a role just like in a RPG game and your role needs to stay stick to the constitution, which is absurdally detailed and long. Your role need to act and perform according to the constitution and any action your role take might be verified against it. There are so called “coaches” who have difficulties in tying their shoes, but ready to provide you a “quote” from hola-constitution in the middle of the night. Seriously, it’s true.
5) Tooploox pretends to have some values, but in practive the only value they have is "money". There is nothing bad with that as each company has to earn money, however in this case they apply a really greedy approach, which consequences are usually handled by engineers. On the other hand, they put much effort in promoting great, idealistic values, which are forgotten as soon as the smell of dollars is around.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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17.0
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2.0
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3.0
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1.0
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1.0
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3.0
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1.0
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1303616
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Open
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There is no advice to the management, as they are blinded by their own egos and greedines.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Tooploox
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private:tooploox
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1303616
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Mar 26th, 2018 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Tooploox
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Software Engineer
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Wrocław
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A great place to work... Not anymore
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- the people are cool and the team fit while hiring is important
- free lunches each Wednesday
- work life balance
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- a messy organization with huge scaling problems
- Tooploox gets involved in almost any project they can get, even those which are super not interesting and frustrating for developers (that's why they grow so fast)
- no way of getting promoted in any way
- in theory you have access to events, but in practice only to local ones: all the big stuff is attended by two guys, who represent the company anywhere
-the office at first was super cool, but now it's really crowded and not comfortable at all
- average salary
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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7.0
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2.0
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4.0
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2.0
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1.0
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3.0
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1.0
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1303616
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Open
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From a very cool organization, Tooploox became a chaotical and frustrating place to work. The management should focus more on employees and their development, rather than on pumping management's ego. Free lunches are cool, but that's not the way to motivate skilful and ambitious people.
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Tooploox
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private:tooploox
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1303616
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Nov 29th, 2017 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Tooploox
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Fullstack Developer
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Wrocław
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Great place for developers, very satisfying projects, home-like atmosphere
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The company allows you to work remotely. Although most of employees prefer to come to the office. Probably because of great atmosphere, friendly and skilled people. Feels like home, sometimes even better :)
Projects are very satisfying, mostly startup-like. Lots can be learned from them and other people. So if you like long-term maintenance projects, you should look somewhere else.
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Company is rapidly growing, and from time to time some organizational issues arise.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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1303616
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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1.0
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Tooploox
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private:tooploox
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1303616
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Sep 15th, 2017 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Tooploox
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Android Engineer
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Bolesławiec, Lower Silesia, Lower Silesia
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Great people, interesting projects, cool environment!
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- Remote work
- Interesting project from very different subjects
- Awesome people
- Great benefits
- Options to learn and develop
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You need to aim for the sky and get better all the time to keep up - if not it's not for you.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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1303616
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Open
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Continue with that!
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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4.0
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Apr 30th, 2021 06:17PM
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Tooploox
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