Pros
They paid well while I was there
Cons
Grindr is under new Chinese ownership and since the takeover, the company has changed from the best company that I’ve ever worked for to the worst within a matter of weeks. The result of the changes is that over 50% of the staff have been laid off within the last month, many of whom had been there from close to the beginning and made the app the phenomenon that it is. In the run up to the mass redundancies, (non-LGBT) middle management made life hell as they pandered to whims of the new ownership and their outlandish expectations. It’s clear that management made fantasy promises that they couldn’t keep, resulting in a depressing and desperate environment and the eventual loss of the entire team’s jobs, including their own. It’s clear that the new leadership, lacking any LGBT members, don’t really know what they’re doing in the dating/LGBT space. They likely realise that they’ve overpaid for the company and the only way they can move forwar towards their IPO is to decimate staff costs. I have no doubt the new internal culture will permeate through to its user base and Grindr will be a shadow of its former self within a year. The term Grindr, once synonymous with a hook-up, will soon be used as a term for the death of a company following a takeover by a team that don’t have a clue with they’re doing.
