ASAPP Reviews

- CEO leadership style is more on the micromanaging side. From my experience I saw him cancel more meetings than attend them (all last min) - Therefore his C-staff lacks strategy and agility. And it trickles down on everything - Which means that one doesn’t feel like they work at a startup due to the hierarchy, egos and politics around. It’s almost comical for the size of the company - That also means, every new exec wants to bring in their people to maintain power, not because the team actually needs these people on the team - So now one starts noticing serious gaps in strategy, and no transparency what so ever - Then notices the mass exodus of A-level talent, leaving one stuck w C-level level talent on one’s projects - At ASAPP one is always walking on eggshells unable to be creative in one’s job nor solve for real problems on the team - So you lose your work/life balance for years. You work, sleep, wake up the next day to start working again, no weekends for months at a time, and if you need a break you’ll have to take it from your PTO. Unfortunately it’s all for nothing meaningful you can be proud of in your career later on. You’re just working for a salary and average benefits - And in the end it goes without saying, in these types of environments, one never gets recognition and finds themselves constantly under the bus

- hero culture vs ownership, of course they will say no, but be ready for extra hours, lots of them.... and you can forget recognition in case you were wandering - No DEI strategy nor willingness to even speak about it, might hurt their investors feelings perhaps? underrepresented talent continues to exit the organization, ask them about how they feel about the absolute absence training for managers and leaders without being singled out and controlled until they leave or shut up. - Micromanagement is king, be prepared to plan the plan for the plan of a plan... and to end up doing whatever Product thinks is best and don't even think on asking why. - Friendships and biases over results/resume when it comes to promotions - You want control over employees, not focused on bringing talent to develop them but rather follow and don't ask questions. - Being a non white cis male in this environment is harder than usual for this industry at ASAPP - Late fixes to comp and equity disparities, resulted in an absolute fail of inclusion on solutions beyond the US American culture. - Even as a share holder you have no insights on revenue and sales, I find this really odd. - Cascading is their communication style of preference so prepare for miscommunication and unless you are at a director/head level, hardly ever having the chance to speak to the leadership directly. For calling ourselves start up we are already really far from that concept, wondering if anyone reading also thinks we're more like an old school bank than a modern organization.