Cliquey, lots of scapegoating - Anonymous employee Zapproved Employee Review

1.0
Mar 22, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Compensation was competitive, benefits were ok. If you're a senior dev and personable, you'll probably get an easy ride here.

Cons

Anything that goes wrong is blamed on the newest/most junior/least popular team member, and often leads to termination. Saw this multiple times while I was there. Management will claim that they will support transitions to new roles, but really they just expect you to do two jobs at once until they only need you for one (or none at all). Also saw this multiple times. Training is nonexistent, and you will be blamed for failures in hindsight if you don't train yourself. Puts too much expectation on junior team members, then blames/terminates them when it inevitably goes wrong. Senior team members and the loudest voices run the show, regardless of merit.

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Zapproved Response
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I’m Chief Product Officer at Zapproved. Based on your post, I can’t tell if you were a part of the engineering organization but you reference senior developers so I wanted to respond. The experience you reference doesn’t reflect the values I have for leading product and engineering so it is concerning to see this feedback. It isn’t clear when you worked for Zapproved but the culture you describe doesn’t match the culture of our team since I arrived in 2019. We rarely see turnover of junior team members and have received positive feedback on the onboarding and training programs we have in place for them. Also, despite a brief pause on training budgets in 2020 due to Covid, we prioritize training and development for all levels of the team. I am saddened to hear of your perspectives on Zapproved so if you would like to discuss your concerns please reach out. - Rekha

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