FreshPlanet Reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)

Mathieu Nouzareth

84% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

FreshPlanet has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FreshPlanet employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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21 reviews
1.0
31 May 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great colleagues, very nice and relatable people. The team is small and close-knit, people are friendly (apart from management). The work environment is also pretty good, it's pretty much like any other small startup in NYC.

Cons

Executives and managers do not respect their employees. Senior management will do anything to pay you well below market rates. Some managers will micro-manage you and discard your feedback every step of the way. As an entry-level dev, I didn't feel respected, and I felt like I was being taken advantage of by management. The company has a very high turnover rate and employs mostly entry level people. For this reason it largely does not follow industry best practices and you will find it difficult to grow professionally in this environment. You won't find any expert mentor there to help you improve your craft. Executives also have little principles and little respect for ethics or even the law. You may be asked to do unethical things. That was a huge red flag for me and caused me to leave quickly. In my opinion the business also has little growth perspectives. It has been stagnating for a while and failed to reinvent itself after getting lucky with one game. It was a hit for about one month. Don't go there for the startup "rock ship" experience, you would be severely disappointed.

2.0
21 Jan 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Your coworkers are amazing. Some really, really nice people. Everyone is very smart, driven, interesting to talk to. The game itself is pretty great and the users and community are really passionate about it. The office is beautiful. Free snacks.

Cons

Lack of communication between management and everyone else runs rampant leads to scrambling to play catch-up. Decisions made with little-to-no transparency by 1 or 2 people at the top. Communication really shouldn't be this poor in a company of ~20 people. Pay is also quite below average, perks aren't great (no matching 401K's, no gym discounts etc), and the HR system is confusing and opaque. Very little growth opportunity.

1.0
6 May 2022

Overall Awful Experience

Recommend
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Pros

I genuinely cannot think of any

Cons

The managers/owners are very inconsiderate, fired a whole staff at 9PM on New Years Eve with no prior notice when they decided to not reopen one of the locations in the new year. They left high school students in charge of closing and opening a store, and would expect far too much from them. One of the owners, Sam, made multiple high school girls uncomfortable with comments that he made or being overly friendly and touchy. If at all possible I would avoid working here. The same person also made multiple homophobic comments to employees that made the entire staff uncomfortable.

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