4.0
4 Aug 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Supportive culture and working environment.
Cons
Long hours and very busy periods.
Green Chef Reviews
3.2
57% would recommend to a friend
Dominik Richter
Not enough data to show CEO approval
45% positive business outlook
Green Chef has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 67 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Green Chef employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants and food service industry (3.7 stars).
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67 reviews
1.0
24 Sept 2015
A great job if you like being fired when your grandfather dies
Former employee, less than 1 year
Denver, CO
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Small business means any feedback you have is actually considered, support is mostly through email and chat so there isn't a ton of phone calls like you'd have in a call center environment. Environment can be fun.
Cons
Employees here are your friend one minute and your enemy the next. There is constant drama. Certain managers don't know how to set proper boundaries between themselves and their employees, so there's an inappropriate level of friendship that ends up making things uncomfortable when management needs to correct problematic behavior in employees. Certain managers are very unprofessional (gossiping about other employees, doing other really not okay things). The HR here supposedly has a lot of experience, but doesn't know how to set up actual straightforward policies. There is absolutely no paid time off or holiday pay. My grandfather died and I took bereavement leave for only two days and when I came back to work, I was told by HR that they wanted me to take an extra day "in case it was too soon", so I went home. When I got home, HR called me and told me I was fired because it "wasn't a good fit" even though I'd worked there for 6 months without any issues and was even training new employees. I later discovered they'd raised the pay rate for the position. I had not even had one written warning for attendance (the attendance policy states you will only be fired after your third written warning). Regardless, you should never be counted as absent for attending an immediate family member's funeral, especially when the two days were already discussed with HR and approved. When they do fire you for having a deceased relative, don't count on taking your new experience to anywhere relevant - Green Chef makes you sign an agreement that you won't work for any competition for at least a year.
5.0
9 Jan 2019
Radical Transformation - Best Job I've Ever Had
Current employee, more than 1 year
Boulder, CO
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
FULL DISCLOSURE - A lot of the previous reviews regarding engineering are mostly true. HOWEVER, I'm the second longest-standing engineer at GreenChef and I can say the engineering organization has gone through a major transformation after the acquisition by HelloFresh in summer 2018. What was once a severely understaffed, poorly managed, tech-debt ridden org is now a growing, thriving, very cohesive team. We still have tech debt (who doesn't?), but we've gone to great efforts to deal with the major, crippling parts that used to hinder the company. We've been splitting older monolith applications into services and rewriting front-ends in newer frameworks. Honestly, it's a very exciting time to be in the engineering org at GC. Pretty much the entire engineering team here is new after the initial fallout from the acquisition by HelloFresh, and the engineering leadership is loved by all. It's a very fun, productive, supportive atmosphere, and I've quite a few new friends through the new hires! The org has grown from 5 engineers to 20-25 at this point, and we anticipate continuing to grow. As for personal growth, I've been learning a lot! This is mostly due to the tackling of tech-debt and migration of old services/databases. It comes with a lot of exciting challenges. While engineering used to be second thought at GC, HelloFresh brought the opposite mindset - engineering is a primary concern and one of the most important orgs for business impact. It feels good to be a part of a team with that kind impact, and we see the fruits of that impact regularly.
Cons
No electric car chargers. Some people have to crank their stand-up desks.
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