Fear-driven culture, risk of mental health issues, under-appreciation - Software Engineer Revolut Employee Review

2.0
27 Jul 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you turn a blind eye to all the cons and agree to sacrifice your life/work balance and work long hours in a very harsh atmosphere, then you can be promoted quite fast. Good work-from-home policy.

Cons

The culture is very toxic and fear-driven. An employee might be fired without any meaningful explanations the next day after discussing plans for the next few months with his/her manager. Due to high stress at work, from time to time I have sleep disturbances. The most severe one lasted a whole week and eventually resulted in me calling an ambulance. Everyone's obsessed with KPIs, not the real quality of deliverables. Projects are often badly scoped. As an engineer, you're just a "resource" that might be deployed to any project at any time without even asking you. Working long hours is encouraged by the company's culture, although not compulsory. If you're perfect at everything (speed, quality, etc), you'll reach only the "Intermediate" level at a performance review. To get a higher score, you'll need to seriously sacrifice your life/work balance.

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Revolut Response
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Reply: Hi there, thank-you for leaving a review. We take all reviews very seriously. We’re sorry to hear of your recent experience. It is very concerning to us as we take out people’s well-being very seriously. We’d be grateful if you’d please contact the HR team or, if you’re not sure who to talk to, just email HR@revolut.com so that we can help. Your work should never affect your health, and we have support available for you. We’d like to address a few of the other points you raise. To reassure you, our performance reviews follow a strict process, and no one is ever let go without a formal review and discussion of performance. We are ambitious as a business but we don’t want that to provoke stress in our people, and we’re working hard to improve how we motivate and support our colleagues. Just to reiterate, there is support for you here at Revolut and your work should never affect your health. Please reach out to HR or your manager so we can improve your experience as soon as possible.

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