So much potential, such disappointment - Anonymous employee Addepar Employee Review

2.0
18 Oct 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Potential mission is very compelling. Legitimately important problem which has the potential to dramatically improve the financial industry. - Great work life balance; flexible hours and vacation (unless you are on one of the teams with defined coverage times like Support or Recon) - Some legitimately intelligent, passionate, and amazingly capable people

Cons

- Pay is median so we're not competitive in pulling the cream of the crop; company is filled with B-players - Much of middle management is incompetent and throws around processes and buzzwords while saying nothing of substance; many people who've decided they want to retire from Addepar or from industry and get paid to do nothing and go on vacation all the time - Instead of firing mediocre people we reward them if they stick around long enough with promotions and made-up job titles - Tech debt up to our ears, fragile QA, releases break things all the time and have embarrassing impact on clients - Outsourcing tedious brute force workflows to an SLC office instead of implementing tech solutions; throwing bodies at the problem is not innovative, it's what everyone else is finance is already doing

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Addepar Response
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We hire talented people with a passion to learn and to change the world. We try to find the areas of strength in each person who works at Addepar and provide them with the right opportunities to set them up for success. We expect everyone at Addepar to act as an owner of our culture. A few values we have are: Demand-Transparency, Build-Together, Take-Action. If you feel that people are not meeting their potential, please speak up, we would like to help people grow and learn how to work better together. On these and other issues you see, we invite you to speak with us so we can learn about your perspective and hear your ideas on how to improve. Thank you for your feedback.

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