AfterShip Reviews

Though the original idea for the company worked out well making it feasible to run the company in a sustainable way, the founders are incompetent mangers for a company of its size. Their typical strategy for product development is to copy ideas from competitors left and right. Lack of overall vision is a key aspect of their management style. Instead of carefully studying the market needs in an objective way, they resort to taking subjective measures resulting in continuous and costly trial and error. The same goes for managing employees expectations. Neither of the founders have a good technical background to manage the engineers they hire. Lot of the efficiencies that could be achieved with a more engineering mind set were skipped simply because the founder/CEO did not understand how it would work. The efficiency loss/technical debt was accounted for with a lot of manual/repetitive work on tight deadlines for the engineers, many of whom quit in a short period of time.

Cofounders treat employees as slaves, either follow their order or get fired. Forcing employees to define unreasonable objective & key result (OKR) before quarter start, so they can blame and prohibit you from promotion during performance review at quarter end. They would extend your probation so as to layoff without compensation. First year of employment have no annual leave (have to take no-paid leave which is troublesome for those who need to rent). There was HKD6000 subsidy for new laptop, cancelled for all employees after mid 2016.