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Hello,
First of all, thank you for taking time to give your opinion and share a review.
We are very sorry to read that your experience at Ovrsea was not up to the task!
Here are some insights to highlight regarding your “cons”:
Indeed diversity is one of our first concerns, here are some things we are working on:
- Gender parity in management: we defined a process to support sourcing (talent acquisition hunting) focused on women for specific positions (particularly ExCo and Leadership) to achieve parity on our talent pool.
- Background diversity: from a seniority level (2 years) academic background (bachelor or master degree) is not a criteria within CV screening, and we have updated specific scorecards for each position with predetermined hard and soft skills.
- Disability: we strive to offer a work environment where everyone feels welcome
We do not pretend to be perfect. As a smaller tech startup, we still aren’t where we aspire to be, but we’re working hard to be better.
Indeed Ovrsea is a first company experience for current employees, including some managers:
Why is that: we promote internally often. On the bright side, this means lots of opportunities for growth at the company. However, for some of our managers (half of them) it’s their first time managing. We are working to mitigate this through management training with an HR specialist firm and recently have hired several very experienced managers.
We can understand your frustration to not achieving your goals as an Account Executive. Our industry and market are indeed demanding, it can take time to build a solid pipeline especially as we are launching a new market in the US. While many of our team exceed their targets, we are in parallel working to ensure that OTE is achievable and often exceeded across our sales team.
We try as much as we can to encourage Ovrsea’s employee to speak up safely:
- Each quarter we send an anonymous pulse survey about: global satisfaction, strategic vision, management and more. We share these results with “CSE” (which is a committee employee represented by actual employees) members and we take calls to action to improve.
- Each month we send an “Ask Me Anything” session led by one of our founders: live answers of anonymous questions in a town hall setting.
Indeed we can still improve a lot (and that’s one of our mottos) and we are doing our best to offer a great work environment.
We truly hope that you will find your perfect match with your next experience.