Tide Reviews

4.6

91% would recommend to a friend

(869 total reviews)

Dr Oliver Prill

77% approve of CEO

91% positive business outlook

Tide has an employee rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 869 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Tide 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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869 reviews
2.0
3 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I met a handful of great people at Tide. I worked hard during my time at Tide and after "doing my time" I could move on to better things.

Cons

When I started at Tide I thought I'd be there for a while. I quickly realised that wouldn't be the case. Any managerial person I encountered (i.e. from Team Leader all the way up to Exec-level), I couldn't turn to them for technical knowledge, operational support, or support for my professional development. They lacked knowledge, skills and empathy. The inequality of treatment was quite obvious based on who was promoted and who wasn't. I also witnessed managers criticising individuals to other colleagues because of their race, accent and personality. I completely get that running a business is expensive and you have many big investors to keep happy, but that was at the cost of my mental health and I believe many others' too. There's no long term vision in terms of looking after those who keep it running.

1.0
24 Mar 2023

Tide way or the highway. Worst experience of my life.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free food on Tuesday Work from anywhere policy

Cons

God, what a truly horrible place. Leaving was the best thing to happen to me. Let's start with the fact that there are many people in senior positions that don't have the skills to be there. It's a start up, so you get promoted quickly, regardless of whether you have the expertise or not. Sr leadership is truly shocking, telling people to be quiet, disregarding people, not believing in people, etc. I think some senior leaders need a communication lesson, not that they would listen. A senior leader who knows nothing about a subject, will never listen to advice on the subject from a professional. No one has any idea what they're doing - no processes, people going behind backs and doing what they like...they are literally winging most things. People. Some people are nice, but you really do have cliques. The majority of them avoid eye contact with you in the office. If you're not with them, you're against them. HR pretend to care about people, but let's face it, they really don't. Absolute reluctance to change. It's the Tide way or the highway. The most disappointing thing is that they KNOW they need improvement, but when the suggestions come in, they don't want to fix anything. Happy to operate in chaos. Also, as you can see, there was a big effort to boots Glassdoor scores. They ask new joiners (who don't yet truly know what it's like), HR and TA to leave positive reviews, because it's beneficial for employer branding (something which they have no direction in). So I'd take those with a pinch of salt and read the negative ones.

1.0
18 Jun 2020

Avoid

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Used to be the free breakfast

Cons

Majority, if not all, 5 star ratings are definitely fake, it's quite obvious and sad. There might be some good people but they're probably thinking of leaving. If you're happy to work for a company that does not care about your development, your opinion or in general for you as an employee, feel free to apply, remuneration and benefits will be basic. - there is no HR - just constant interim - literally left because of high turnover - there are no benefits - management that's unprofessional and genuinely lacking experience - just titles - product vision is severely lacking that's why competition is doing way better - again, inexperienced management - negative and constant pressure environment disguised into 'that's how start ups are' - CEO has clearly said if 'you don't like it here, you can leave' in open meetings - low pay - super high turnover - either hire&fire or people just leave after a few months Side note - During the start of the pandemic only higher management was allowed to work from home and that just says everything.

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Tide Response
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. We are sorry to hear that we did not meet your expectations. We wanted to respond to your concerns: 1) Validity of the reviews - Glassdoor has a way of filtering out any reviews it deems to be fake. We firmly believe that the Tide employee reviews are authentic. Furthermore, given our employee survey results, it is clear that the vast majority of Tideans are very happy at Tide, which corresponds with the Glassdoor reviews. 2) Tide’s care for employees - We’re sorry that you feel that Tide does not care about you as an employee. We need to do better and are working on it! We’ve recently introduced a number of initiatives (including the employee surveys, our new performance process and employee trainings) that we hope will improve the employee experience for all of our Tideans. 3) Lack of HR - We have recently dramatically increased the size of the permanent People team in London. Please reach out to them with any inquiries or feedback! 4) Lack of benefits - We have a suite of great benefits on offer: 25 days of holiday, Vitality healthcare, a training and development budget, extended family friendly leave, sabbatical leave, salary sacrifice, paid volunteering days off and others. We’re working on better ways in which we can highlight these benefits to Tideans which we plan on implementing by the end of the year. 5) Management - We are proud of the diversity of experiences that we have on our management team. In order to continue improving, we are hosting a number of manager training sessions in the coming months. We hope that this training will standardise Tideans’ employee experience. 6) Product vision - We agree that we should do better at communicating our product vision and we are actively working on this. 7) Working environment - While we agree that Tide has a fast-paced work environment, we believe that it makes for a great place to learn and be challenged. Tideans get a lot of autonomy to grapple with difficult problems in order to provide an excellent product to our members. 8) Low pay - Our annual benchmarking ensures that Tideans are compensated appropriately for their work. Please reach out to the People team if you believe that you are below benchmark. 9) High turnover - We are taking a look at our attrition numbers and are taking steps in order to improve them. Our most recent employee survey has helped us focus on what matters most to Tideans. #datadriven 10) Covid WFH - Due to our Business Continuity procedures certain members of the senior leadership team were asked to work from home at the very beginning of the pandemic. We closely followed the government guidelines as the news unfolded. Again, thank you for your thoughts - we hope that you continue to provide your honest feedback to us to that we can improve Tide together!
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