Think carefully before choosing to work here - Anonymous employee Judge.me Employee Review

The product is popular and well regarded with a wide reach, so if you work in the industry it could look good on your CV to be part of this journey. Strong strategic vision, but entirely owned and controlled by the founder, so only work here if you are an executor.

Despite clear strategy day to day direction and initiatives change based on the most recent podcast the founder listened to/tweet he read. There is no space for opinions or suggestions from inside the business, and employees cycle out of the business as they realise this. No trust in the workplace, just constant micro-management. A culture of 'you're only as good as your last mistake' makes this an unpleasant environment to work in where the senior people in the business care more about pleasing the founder and finding fault in others than doing a good job. Pay is ok, no process for reviewing it, so pray you have a good manager, and the company over-relies on other measures, such as Visa sponsorship, to keep the workforce in place. The sad thing is this is a feature not a bug of the management style.

Judge.me offered a strong technical environment with a well-structured engineering team, a clean codebase and a solid Ruby on Rails tech stack. I worked with talented developers and grew significantly from a technical perspective.

Unfortunately, the company culture had a significant negative impact on my experience. There was a strong sense of favoritism, highly top-down leadership and a lack of empathy in how employees were managed. Leadership rarely interacted with those outside of senior circles, creating a rigid hierarchical environment. This made me and others, feel disconnected, undervalued and not treated with basic respect. Over time, this environment took a toll on my mental well-being and led to burnout, making it unsustainable for me to continue in the role. In my experience, this culture also appeared to contribute to consistently high staff turnover during and after my time at the company.