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      Foundry Reviews

      3.5

      63% would recommend to a friend

      (141 total reviews)
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      Jody Madden

      66% approve of CEO

      48% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Diversity and inclusion

      3.4

      Culture and values

      3.2

      Senior management

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      2.9

      Compensation and benefits

      Foundry has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 141 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Foundry employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

      Reviews by job title

      141 reviews
      2.0
      15 Sept 2016

      Alas...

      Anonymous employee
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      Business outlook

      Pros

      Relaxed and informal work environment, flexible working hours, good central london location and your colleagues are generally nice decent people.

      Cons

      No real career progression, always at the grind stone working to get another release out - no real engineering culture to inspire you or learn from. This isn’t a place to come learn your trade and grow, you get a once a year appraisal which is lip service at best and then forgotten about for the rest of the year. New management have made it pretty clear they are not in the business of rewarding you financially and have an agenda to reduce costs where possible. Staff retention is terrible currently, a lot of the old faces are leaving and ‘promotions’ are handed to people without any increase in salary.

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      Foundry Response
      9y
      Thanks for your comments. Whilst I agree that we have suffered some attrition this is now stabilising and leveling out. Not everyone wants to accept change but the changes were necessary in order to grow and improve our position in the market. We are introducing many new communication initiatives which will provide staff with an opportunity to get answers to their questions. This was not done consistently in the past and we acknowledge this.
      2.0
      19 Mar 2015

      Shadow of its former self... RUN!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great people, great products, fun and interesting. Office was small and cramped, but what it lacked in aesthetics, it made up for in character.

      Cons

      Marketing are the driving force of bitter infighting and office politics. After the old VC purchase and the new one, there was a restructure that benefited those who where in the "inner circle". A flourish of inexperienced managers who didn't know what they wanted, but needed to raise sales and revenue, non the less, led to two failed products and loss of valued colleagues. No remorse and no regrets attitude from C Staff teams. Watch out for HR. Complete poison. Cold blooded and under handed tactics that will, and have led to, lots of top people leaving. The ousting of the original founder was the last straw for most. With another round of VC to be had, they will be trimming the fat, after the sale. Look else where.

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      Foundry Response
      9y
      I appreciate your review and the nature of it. I only joined Foundry at the end of 2015, along with many of the executive members, so I'm not able to comment on the specific examples outlined. However, I am genuinely sorry to hear how negatively you view your time at Foundry. Change is very difficult and we have experienced a lot of it recently. The teams have changed a lot in the past year and many of the old structure are no longer part of Foundry today. Hopefully, this type of review will no longer be applicable to Foundry as a massive amount has changed since you posted it.
      2.0
      22 Oct 2017

      Sigh

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - Convenient location. - Transparent communication. - Interesting technology that touches many industries.

      Cons

      - Leadership is unwilling to adapt or invest in new business models, resulting in unsustainable and self imploding services. - Management mentality is to intimidate, undermine and scapegoat. - Key leadership has quit, been fired or neutered. - Weak processes (very reactive environment), poor execution and strategy. - Continually met with resistance and aggression every step of the way. - Suffocating environment, feels clicky, unfriendly and threatening. - A string of staff departures. - Terrible on-boarding program, roles not clearly defined, severe lack of directives. - Massive work ethic differences between teams.

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      Foundry Response
      8y
      Thank you for your honest review, I’m sorry to hear that you feel this way. We try our hardest to make good leadership decisions, but recognise that sometimes we don’t get it quite right. I am glad that our efforts to build an environment of openness and transparency are working. We want to continue to foster a culture where ideas and contributions from all our people are listened to and considered with the ultimate aim of making Foundry an even better place to work. I note also that you raised some specific concerns about our onboarding programme. We have recently overhauled our approach to onboarding, with a corporate standard for all at Foundry and some nely created functional specific programmes. We’re reviewing these processes and gathering feedback from employees to continue to improve the new joiner experience. I was especially saddened, though, to read your comments about the management style. You describe an approach and behaviours which are, and always will be, unacceptable at Foundry. We take your comments very seriously and if you felt it was appropriate I would be happy to talk to you confidentially to understand your experiences more. Please just email me and we can arrange a time to talk. As you know I have recently joined Foundry and am confident that together myself and the wider Exec team can continue to build on the work we have already done to improve our company culture and work life experience.
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