Won't Recommend Anymore - Manager Urban Ladder Employee Review

2.0
18 Apr 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free Food. Freedom (which is grossly misused by many). Like minded and friendly people who help you stay sane when chaos strikes (which happens all the time).

Cons

Super Hirearchical. Pays are determined by pedigree than by the quality of the work/person - most of the time. No work-life balance - UL does not allow you to have a life if you happen to be a efficient and diligent person. The more you work the more work load will be piled up for you... This is how UL rewards its hard working/efficient employees. It is impossible to maintain work life balance as the amount of work load is inhumane on anyone who chooses to work diligently (and doesn't spend time pleasing manager/CEO). Also CEO (overtly/covertly) decides who should stay, who should go and who should be promoted/demoted - and not the HR. CEOs mood swings can make/destroy someones career for a while (not their life of course)!!!

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Urban Ladder Response
9y
Thanks for your feedback. While we have done mistakes in the past, we have put in place a massive set of initiatives in the last 2-3 months to correct our mistakes and move forward with lot more objective decision making. We have fine-tuned the organization structure and have brought in a rigorous goal setting process (similar to OKR system in Google) which is helping us have performance conversations in a lot more objective manner. Every single one of our leads' goals is a lot clearer and is highly outcome based in the Apr 17 - Mar 18 time period and we believe that a consistent and objective discussion can be meaningfully had. We have been getting formal and informal feedback from the team members and most of them are confident that this is a big step forward. It also helps for decentralized decision making (accountability + responsibility lies with the same person) and removes the hierarchy. We do sincerely hope this solves the problem. While it's difficult to rewind back time, I would love to have a chat with you whenever you get a chance over coffee, and I do hope you are creating magic elsewhere in your new role. Pls reach out to me at rajiv at urbanladder dot com for any questions on the above.

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Pros

good prepossess and people make this place interesting. management is understanding and helps out to get things done.

Cons

many new idea need to be incorporated, sometimes it is seasonal. three is not a good vision on new products but very strong current products.

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Urban Ladder Response
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Thanks for the feedback. We are working on making sure we establish a strong engine for our product thinking so that our products for the future are also hits similar to our current products. Please do feel free to send any specific feedback or ideas on the same to rajiv at urbanladder dot com.
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Cons

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