GoBear Reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(74 total reviews)
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Adrian Chng

40% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

GoBear has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 74 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GoBear 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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74 reviews
1.0
21 Oct 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Unlimited leave and flexible working arrangements. Unless you know how to manage your bosses well, for sure there will be growth for you.

Cons

Have monthly townhalls but Q&A is just a waste of time. People not asking the right questions and when there is a right and important question CEO, confuses us with his explanation by not answering the question. The product team is a mess. Not able to do new merchandise. New hires are also leaving.

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GoBear Response
6y
Thank you for the constructive feedback. Every growth stage company faces unique challenges and we appreciate you taking time to give us these points to reflect on. Town halls are a way for us to keep all bears informed of important news. Our hope is that the Q&A section allows anyone, anonymously if they wish, to ask any question they have on their mind. We do make the effort to answer all questions, but these cover a variety of topics with each one having different amounts of details and context. We hear you and agree that there is a need to improve Q&A. So over the last few town halls we have been gathering feedback and made changes to improve the quality of both questions and answers. For example, we now dedicate more time for questions with the most votes. Building our financial supermarket will be a journey we embark on together. This will present each team with unique challenges to overcome as well as milestones to celebrate. Our bears will make the biggest impact in this journey and we are constantly refining the ways we can support them. This includes regular walkthroughs of our strategy to keep all teams aligned. We’re happy to hear that you like our leave policy and flexible working style. We think this let’s our bears find the right balance in life so they can focus on what’s important both at home and work. Again, thank you for the feedback. If you would like to further discuss your concerns, you can also look to our open door policy. We encourage all bears to consider speaking to either their managers, the People team (that’s us!), or any member of the leadership team. We’re committed to making ourselves available because we know how passionate our bears are!
1.0
14 Apr 2020

Bad management, do not join

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice office setup, free monday breakfast, unlimited leaves

Cons

Management keeps changing direction but expect us to deliver fast. CEO takes us merry go round when answering queries in townhall. Focus on hiring lots of staffs but dun retain/appreciate current ones.

1.0
9 Dec 2019

Not your typical tech startup

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The usual tech company perks - Long vacation (unlimited in fact) - Flexible hours - Nice office

Cons

- Delusional management team, thinking we're rolling out revolutionary products - The products built are of extremely low quality, by industry standard, or any standard - Execution is poor, very poor. We have 5-6 teams focusing on building products, and the status is still building after more than a year - Coordinations between teams are so bad, partly because of the me, myself and I self-interest only culture - Incompetency across all levels - The restructuring exercise held was so poorly done that it's disgusting than just distasteful - Easily the one of the worst cultures and most toxic environment I've experienced

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GoBear Response
6y
Thank you for taking some time to leave us your feedback. We recognize that pursuing our mission to improve people’s financial health and building Asia’s leading financial supermarket brings with it unique challenges. Sometimes this does mean making difficult choices and such decisions are never taken lightly. But we also believe that there are many opportunities for our bears to learn and grow. We hope every bears experience with us will be enriching and we are committed to helping our teams focus their energies, work as a team, and foster open communication. It is nice to hear that you’re fan of our leave policy and flexible working style. We love it too and this goes a long way to allowing every bear to plan their day and find the right balance between home and work. We miss every bear that leaves us, again thank you for the review and we wish you all the best!
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