Toxic - Anonymous Remitly Employee Review

1.0
29 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most employees are motivated by the mission and work very hard.

Cons

Remitly stresses cultural values in every aspect of the work but fails in almost every way to live up to them. Culture is like Amazon without the great stock price. Senior leadership is inexperienced and ineffective in every department. I don’t think the reports to the CEO have ever had their job and it shows. There is no such thing as an innocent mistake, everything is scrutinized and small things are blown up out of proportion leading to a fear based environment. The CEO is a nice man, and delegates the difficult work to his team. The Chief counsel can’t keep staff, finance is broken, the head of HR job was open for a long time. The CTO is a poor partner to non engineering teams and is running an engineering team that is burned out. The product teams are run by very junior executives, making poor decisions. The customer service team is constantly in chaos. The culture is toxic. There is no work life balance. The VP level has no authority.

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
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Pros

AI Native from first principles. Colleagues are strong and collaborative; this is the most consistent positive across teams. The mission is concrete: moving cross-border money for people supporting families. It informs prioritization and trade-offs. Scope and responsibility are available early to people who take them. Compensation and benefits are great. The company has a defined strategic direction under new CEO Sebastian Gunningham and is executing against it. Exciting time to be here.

Cons

Big org changes as the company reinvent, not for everyone.

3.0
18 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company started off to be great when I joined a few years back. Lots of hands on opportunities, some great people to work with. Benefits are good, people are valued and contributions are seen.

Cons

The company really started to go downhills in 2024 when there are constant leadership changes, mission changes, priorities changes and team orgs. Business Managers are starting to act like the "decision-maker" over pretty much all product and marketing decisions. We start to question if the direction we are focusing on is even right. Is it customer-centric still or is it more business-oriented. work life balance is bad stress is high people are no longer valued, heard or seen you know a company is going in a negative direction when you start to see tenured employees to leave, smart people to leave as well.

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