GoBear Reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(74 total reviews)
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Adrian Chng

40% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

GoBear has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 74 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GoBear 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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74 reviews
4.0
5 Oct 2018

Great place to grow

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Fantastic guidance from local team leaders and great collaboration with smart colleagues - Great learnings on strategy, performance marketing, and monetization from very professional team - Analytical decision-making and creative problem-solving are respected and applied constantly - Great appreciation for taking initiatives, trying new solutions, and getting things done - Amazing office, great work-life balance, and multi-cultural teams

Cons

- Not enough engineering expertise or empowerment at the moment - Some cumbersome processes - Unclear career progression

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GoBear Response
7y
Thank you for your constructive feedback! Much appreciated :) We are amidst rearranging the product development teams into cross-functional teams whom can work 100% independently. Stay in touch and let us share our experience with you in 6 months time. In fast-growing companies, career progression is widely available, as the company grows the roles & responsibilities evolve as well. However, because it is fast moving - it may not always be a clearly defined path.
1.0
21 Oct 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Unlimited leave and flexible working arrangements. Unless you know how to manage your bosses well, for sure there will be growth for you.

Cons

Have monthly townhalls but Q&A is just a waste of time. People not asking the right questions and when there is a right and important question CEO, confuses us with his explanation by not answering the question. The product team is a mess. Not able to do new merchandise. New hires are also leaving.

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GoBear Response
6y
Thank you for the constructive feedback. Every growth stage company faces unique challenges and we appreciate you taking time to give us these points to reflect on. Town halls are a way for us to keep all bears informed of important news. Our hope is that the Q&A section allows anyone, anonymously if they wish, to ask any question they have on their mind. We do make the effort to answer all questions, but these cover a variety of topics with each one having different amounts of details and context. We hear you and agree that there is a need to improve Q&A. So over the last few town halls we have been gathering feedback and made changes to improve the quality of both questions and answers. For example, we now dedicate more time for questions with the most votes. Building our financial supermarket will be a journey we embark on together. This will present each team with unique challenges to overcome as well as milestones to celebrate. Our bears will make the biggest impact in this journey and we are constantly refining the ways we can support them. This includes regular walkthroughs of our strategy to keep all teams aligned. We’re happy to hear that you like our leave policy and flexible working style. We think this let’s our bears find the right balance in life so they can focus on what’s important both at home and work. Again, thank you for the feedback. If you would like to further discuss your concerns, you can also look to our open door policy. We encourage all bears to consider speaking to either their managers, the People team (that’s us!), or any member of the leadership team. We’re committed to making ourselves available because we know how passionate our bears are!
1.0
14 Apr 2020

Bad management, do not join

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Pros

Nice office setup, free monday breakfast, unlimited leaves

Cons

Management keeps changing direction but expect us to deliver fast. CEO takes us merry go round when answering queries in townhall. Focus on hiring lots of staffs but dun retain/appreciate current ones.

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