Holidog Employee Reviews

too much negativity and blaming, no effort to create an actual team, frustrating experience overall

overall bad experience. it's unstructured, not what was promised in the job description, lots of negativity. boring work and too many over hours that are completely unpaid

The company is very chaotic. Bad practices are just put off saying "we're a startup" while the company is actually no longer in that startup phase. They missed the point when they would have needed structure and employees with knowledge and this is ruining the underlying good mission now.

I feel lucky to work in this company and with this team

My overall experience at the company has been positive. I was allowed to evolve pretty fast and my missions continue to evolve as well. I feel like we are required a certain commitment, but it does not go unrewarded or unnoticed.

The Flexible and dynamic approach

I like that the leadership team is flexible and understanding. They trust me to do my job well and regularly provide me with content to help develop my professional skills.

they need to get better at communication, people skills, strategy, efficiency

they need better integrity and more accountability. communication style should be improved too

There's a lack of communication and of experience. Leadership needs to learn to work strategically and not only on short notice reactions. Also they're not accountable, instead of taking responsibility they're playing the blame game

Leadership isn't really existent. The company has only three levels: CEO, managers and interns. The managers aren't experienced and just check on the interns' customer service work, nothing more. The CEO creates negative pressure on the managers. Lack of strategy and structure

the compensation is low, overtime is not paid

compensation is far below market standards and over hours are unpaid

Full times are expected to work way more than in their contract but without any additional compensation. If over hours reach such a high level they should be compensated for by regular pay, fair bonus structures or equity

I think my compensation is really fine for a startup

The compensation for interns is ok. Anyhow it's not an internship that teaches a lot, it's a job that would usually be done from a customer service person. So interns are just the cheap way around paying an employee who would earn more.

it's like a family, we all are very close, it's very easy to talk and discuss any subject

They are hard working, humble and make the office a place we look forward to go to. Collaboration with the team is often enriching, and generally smooth.

young, international team and dog friendly environment

coworkers just interact nicely on the surface, there is too much gossiping and blaming

they need more full times and less interns

too much internal competition and blaming, it's not a collaborative environment

Collaboration with some coworkers is good, others are very self-absorbed. Many team members are also more focused on problems than on solutions. A big problem with the coworkers is that most of them are interns (far more interns than employees) so they lack knowledge, experience and stay only short

the fact that the business of the company is focused around pets

The most positive aspect of our company culture is to not panic or let things get us down. In a startup things can move fast, which could generate stress but in those moments we take the time to step back and face challenges with a smile on our faces. We also know that we can count on each other.

Being accountable for own results instead of trying to get credit when things go well and blaming when they don't. Hiring a real team on not only interns to have some consistency

they company needs some full time employees and not only interns. they need fair pay and more respect

they need less interns and more employees. if you have 15 interns, some freelancers and less than 10 employees there's no continuity at all

There's a lot of negative pressure. It results in blaming, talking behind others' backs and similar bad practices that harm the company culture. Having more interns than employees doesn't help either cause most of the team changes over the course of three month so there's no consistency

With most colleagues (interns) the atmosphere is good, but not with management. They talk bad about interns and colleagues, gossip a lot. It also always feels like there is a competition between departments and blaming for mistakes. When the CEO is in the office everyone is very tense.

it was easy. unfortunately the position is very different from what they said

It seemed a bit unprofessional but it was very easy to pass

the process was very professional

I liked that I was given an assignment at the end of the interview. I think that is a fair way to assess an applicant's rigorousness and motivation about the job, as people have different interpersonal skills that can influence the interview process.

very nice first round interview, overall not very difficult questions

the team and the project

I like the nature of my missions so I look forward to work to recruit, meet new people & learn more about talent acquisition. I'm also happy to see my coworkers.

negative pressure, bad culture of blaming and gossiping, low pay for the work that is done,

no respect from managers for their teams (or from CEO to his managers). goals are unclear, no strategy and it seems the company is financially in a bad position but no one talks about it

interns are hired to do business development but end up doing customer service. the bosses have no idea what they're doing

There's a lot going wrong: Starting from lies to clients, over managers who gossip about their teams, to a CEO who will belittle his employees in front of everyone.

The company calls themselves startup but only takes this name as an excuse to not hire people, pay low wages and change their mind often. It would be time to hire people with more expertise and not only interns and to develop a long term strategy and clear communication

I like that some people bring their dogs. that's everything unfortunately

nothing really, only good thing is that there are dogs in the office

I like the free lunch

management style! they need some managers who know how to do their job and a team that is not only interns

honesty and a better environment

I'd like to see some strategy and some experienced employees instead of only interns