Vodori Reviews

4.3

85% would recommend to a friend

(42 total reviews)
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Scott Rovegno

86% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Vodori has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 42 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Vodori 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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42 reviews
2.0
4 May 2021

Headed for the off-ramp

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Vodori had a knack for hiring very talented, hard-working, considerate, and dedicated people. The network of former employees is likely the most valuable thing to come out of the company. During the initial product building years, there was a fair amount of opportunity to take on new responsibilities and learn new skills, but those days are in the past.

Cons

Unless you like being micromanaged, being paid below market rate, rarely receiving bonuses, or dealing with passive aggressive and defensive leadership, look elsewhere. Recent attrition has been at the senior level because employees with enough experience and wisdom to realize the major issues are structural (the founders’ inability to take criticism, poor management skills, inability to strategically grow a company, and cash-strapped operations due to a lack of funding or willingness to dilute ownership), then talented employees leave. Based on recent business decisions, it looks like the founders are actively seeking their exit by cutting costs to make the business attractive to potential buyers. And to be crystal clear - if or when they do sell, any upside is going to them alone.

2.0
5 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- During my time at Vodori, nearly every co-worker I had was great to work with. - Truly unlimited PTO. - Opportunities to progress your career due to small team size.

Cons

Over the past few years, the company has transitioned from mainly consulting to a SaaS model, where the big driver is company valuation over employee happiness. Some highlights of life at Vodori: - Low pay. - Gaslighting. - Severely understaffed. - Burnout due to understaffing. - 90% of the product team has left over the past 18 months. - Founders don't trust employees to make the right decisions, so they micromanage every department. - As people leave, the leadership team is outsourcing entire departments (HR, Support, DevOps, Engineering) rather than backfilling. - The CEO listens to the Joe Rogan podcast and brings it up regularly in conversation.

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Vodori Response
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Thanks for the feedback. One point of clarification - I do indeed pull ideas and inspiration from many places, podcasts included. However, I don't listen to Joe Rogan. The podcast I most often recommend and frequently reference at Vodori is the Jocko Podcast, and in particular any episode with Dave Burke.
1.0
4 May 2021

A restaurant without a chef

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Recruiting at Vodori has been excellent as evident by the great number of talented employees who work(ed) there.

Cons

Vodori runs like a restaurant without a chef and simultaneously too many chefs in the kitchen without a clue on how to put it all together! The owners don't trust anyone's decisions, including their own, long enough to gain momentum in any direction. So they've ended up with staff that are running around like chickens without heads, sous chefs who don't know what stations they are manning, and a soup that is nothing like the menu promises and tastes worse with every stir! The owners run the company, which would be okay if they knew how to lead, but with all their individual talents in their respective areas of expertise, they are some of the worst leaders I've ever had the displeasure of working with. They have outdated views of leadership, valuing a fear-based, competition-driven, image-conscious style over a trusting, supportive, and empowering one that makes employees want to stick around. Their lack of interest in their people outside their immediate usefulness is painfully obvious. Furthermore, they do not seem interested in building a sustainable company and as such the talents of those who care about their work is wasted at Vodori. There's no stored value in any of the work that is contributed by bright people over the years, as everything is thrown out and started from scratch on a whim.

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