Flinks Reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(45 total reviews)

Julien Cousineau

100% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Flinks has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 45 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Flinks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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45 reviews
2.0
30 Jun 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some cool people to work with, nice location, relaxed hours, don’t abuse email ( slack primarily), plenty of work to do since a startup- silos between departments don’t exist

Cons

1. Ridiculous job titles are used that make no sense in the industry- and several ‘heads of’ the same role exist 2. Onboarding/adjustment to new environment is very rushed neither without the necessary time, nor basic equipment to do your job provided 3. Fake reviews by management only exist on this site so far, so distinct lack ethical ( and many other examples that will become obvious if you decide to join ) 4. The trademarked logo of the Canadiens is frequently used on company propaganda to attract new employees 5. Operational IAM a joke – non existent on some systems – and if you say anything about it, even if it’s on your job description/industry standards, a reprisal will follow at a later date like a ticking time bomb by executives who seems to be always scrambling or in a panic. Nepotism or outright irresponsibly protects the incompetent 6. Two out of three owners are dishonest, so you have to somehow find solid footing when they put you thru the accelerated onboarding process, yet won’t honour what they agreed to afterwards if you don’t satisfy their lowest common denominator experience 7. If you are a certified professional, stay away, or be prepared to accept a ‘hack job only’ approach that throws process and risk management out the window

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Flinks Response
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Hey there, Thanks for your feedback, we're sorry you didn't have the best experience with us. We're still a young company and are learning everyday, we give our best efforts to be better than yesterday. We hope you have better success in your new position. YG
1.0
17 Mar 2022

Poor culture

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The environment of a startup was nice, several opportunities to solve complex problems, since a big part of the company employees were there just to get a paycheck, because they were friends of the owners. There was a few developers that were very good, specially the ones working with the live application and devops team, I was able to learn a lot with them.

Cons

Lack of management and focus on build a better product, specially in the tech team. I felt that completing tasks was less important than being a nice person on slack and in the company events. It's not cool to work in a place where you fell that you are doing hard work with your team, but at the same time you see many other employees basically doing nothing, or at least not showing what they were doing. I didn't like the culture of saying bad things about other companies either, neither that founders were making meaning jokes about ex-employees in slack either. I heard stories that they chased ex-employees after they left. They did a quarter event with everyone, but it always felt it was not to build a team, instead it felt more like a moment for the 3 owners to show their big ego, specially the CEO. There was a day that he even used a dollar gun to finalize his speech, no comments.

3.0
17 Feb 2023

A boys club

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Well-paced work with lots of friendly people. Products are essential for fintech companies.

Cons

It's a boys club where the favourites operate with diplomatic immunity and feedback is stifled.

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