Depop Reviews

Culture has really suffered during the pandemic. Slow to adapt healthily to remote working and hyper hiring growth. Not a lot of time or energy for social stuff around endless zoom calls. Lack of structured processes around career progression and promotion leads to feelings of inequity. - seems more based on 'who you know' or prior level rather than individually earned skill or contribution. Men frequently hired into senior positions rather than promoting women. You feel at the bottom rung and unable to enact any change as a non-senior team member. No healthy feedback culture either amongst peers or to leadership meaning poor performance can go unchecked. Become very hierarchical with ineffective middle management who are afraid or unwilling to stand up to unreasonable or unclear leadership direction. Heavy culture of doing what you're told rather than challenging questionable decisions. Targets slow to be reforecast based on hiring shortfall and external factors plus very little collaboration or synergy between business and product, leading to pressure and ineffectiveness. Not a lot of clear, focussed shared vision or strategy to work to. An uncomfortable growing scrutiny on committed delivery plans over value generation in product teams. Not really a healthy agile product development practice. I reluctantly felt forced to leave feeling burned out and like my efforts were not recognised and feedback to improve things was unwelcome.

I started bright eyed and bushy tailed, genuinely excited to work for such a progressive company. Sadly my time ended sooner than I'd have liked for a few reasons and I felt I had no other option than to leave. Lots of my wider team who I got on with really well left for reasons that are now clear. To say I felt psychologically unsafe is an understatement. Nepotism is rife, particularly in the team I was in. A senior member of the team was so out of touch it was honestly unbelievable, and their lack of care for certain members of their team plus favouritism created a toxic, uneasy atmosphere which was easy to sense even working remotely. It's a real shame that some of the employees so valued here just don't align with what Depop is trying to promote. Where is the inclusivity, support, taking care of employee mental health particularly over the last year or so and with what everyone has been through. People have been struggling on so many different levels and a little support from an employer can go such a long way rather than doing the exact opposite. These people may be good at their day jobs but without being able to manage a team and individuals sufficiently as well as no emotional intelligence or basic common sense, it's obviously going to make people leave if they don't feel supported on a basic level. So many people who I worked with felt the same. I expected more working for Depop and am writing this review in the hope that some genuine change can come from my experience and others can have a more enjoyable time at this company and feel valued and championed as they deserve to be.