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Jaidev Janardana
22 Ratings
Pros
Both are supportive and really care about work/life balance (in 6 reviews)
Great people and collaboration across disciplines (in 6 reviews)
Cons
high staff turn over with no real HR structure and company policy (in 3 reviews)
In some aspects, Zopa has a real start-up feel but I'm not convinced that this is a con (in 3 reviews)
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"Great Company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Zopa full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Social, disruptive, great employees, great management
Cons
Benefits package, salary can be improved
Advice to Management
Value your employees with monetary incentives
Zopa 2018-01-01 06:27 PST ![Zopa Logo]()
"Smart people, good employer"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Zopa full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Colleagues are intelligent, friendly, helpful and easy to approach. Interesting and ambitious software development projects using the latest technologies. Good work/life balance. Management at all levels is fairly decent.
Cons
Salaries are higher elsewhere (but not by enough to temp me away). Quite tight with 'perks' - free alcohol is only Friday after 4.45pm, and it's a limited supply. Free fruit is very limited in supply. Developer laptops low spec and only running Windows 8.1. Difficult to get IT requests fulfilled, especially with the new 'ZOOM' system.
Advice to Management
Make sure developers don't get weighed down with processes. Be a bit more generous with perks and salaries. Find a way to make working with the Barcelona teams easier and more productive.
Zopa 2018-04-18 11:56 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Great place to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Zopa full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- People here are intelligent and ready to share knowledge
- Loads of opportunities to learn
- Career progression opportunities
- Great work/life balance
- Management are open to taken on board new ideas or new tool suggestions
- Genuinely care about customers and employees
- Exciting projects to work onCons
- Communication among teams could be improved (pretty standard issue in most work places)
- Salary's could be better although its not terrible
- Benefits are not bad but could be improvedAdvice to Management
Improve salary and improve benefits.
keep up the good workZopa 2018-03-27 10:02 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Smart people and a place to learn"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Zopa full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Helpful colleagues who are willing to share their knowledge and help you learn new things - you can spend time with other teams to learn what they do and even though people are busy, they're generous with their time and will give you advice on learning new skills. There is a lot of transparency across the business and the exec team are really approachable and open. The main thing: it is actually a place where they do what they preach - the higher ups genuinely care about the mission of the company and are trying to put customers first in everything the company does.
Cons
It's a fast growing company, so there are expected growing pains with culture and trying to keep the flexibility and creativity with a growing team - especially bringing in lots of new people for the bank launch, but they seem like they're taking this concern seriously and trying to focus more on culture.
Advice to Management
Keep the openness to hear and use input from your team at all levels and be make sure that new teams growing in the business have the diversity to keep from getting stuck in the way we think through customer problems.
Zopa 2018-03-22 05:53 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Great company culture, cutting edge fintech products"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Zopa full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Outstanding colleagues who are both very smart and nice (low ego). Great leadership team. We are working on interesting, cutting edge products in the fintech space that not many other fintech companies are working on. The company tries to do the right thing and isn't optimizing for profit but rather once to build products that add value to real people. Usually the grass is always greener somewhere else but I can truly say that I very much enjoy working at Zopa.
Cons
We don't have Slack yet :(
Advice to Management
Keep on doing what you are doing, gathering feedback and constantly improving. Keep company culture as your north star.
Zopa 2018-03-22 08:47 PDTHelpful (1)
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"So close..."
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Zopa full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
- Big focus on culture; majority of employees very approachable and willing to help others (even if they are very busy on other things!)
- Very agile working environment - things move fast, so be prepared to keep up!
- All questions submitted by employees are answered by respective individual (right up to CEO) with honesty and openness; firm priorities and ambitions regularly communicated to wider audience
- Development highly encouraged; much flexibility to move into more technical roles if willingness to learn exhibitedCons
- Some 'Heads of', whilst technically strong, can be very abrasive to interact with and inwardly focused on their own priorities, not reflecting the approach and culture of their employees/teams and the wider company
Advice to Management
Keep focused on objectives, but not at the expense of what makes working for Zopa great!
Zopa 2018-03-22 05:52 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Company on an interesting growth perspective"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Zopa full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Analytical culture
Smart people
Lots of growth and opportunities
High premium on learningCons
Sometimes inexperienced managers
Growth has it's challenges
Overly ambitiousAdvice to Management
Largely keep what you're doing, focus more on brand going forward.
Zopa 2018-03-22 05:55 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Great, innovative company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Zopa full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Amazing culture, great people, fast moving environment, innovative product and a team that are genuinely passionate about it, management that are personable and care
Cons
Some growing pains associated with going from 50+ - 300+. Normal stuff.
Zopa 2018-02-06 09:13 PSTHelpful (1)
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"People first"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Zopa full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Zopa is a fintech with a people-first mindset.
* Zopa cares about its employees and our customers. There are strong cross-team ties, and I consider many of my peers friends too.
* I've had the privilege to be side by side with some of the most inspiring people I've ever met. Zopa is a place where you can not only learn more about the fintech scene and improve your skills, but you can also feel inspired and learn from some of the best leaders.
* Great feedback is always available to improve just about anything you may be interested in: yourself, the product, designs, tech, strategy, what have you...Cons
* While I appreciate the amount of care Zopa has for it's employees, at times it can feel like a bit of a splurge: their heart's in the right place, but at times their efforts may not have the desired impact. Just ask before spending, and you'll be able to offer competitive salaries.
* The "do without asking" mentality at times bleeds into the tech side of the company, occasionally resulting in puzzling decisions.Advice to Management
Keep up the efforts in providing such a great environment with such great humans! Just keep an eye on employee compensation and tech decisions.
Zopa 2018-01-27 09:07 PSTHelpful (2)
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"The Future of banking"
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Approves of CEOI have been working at Zopa full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
they carefully select like minded individuals who are like minded. you can dress causally
Cons
Still are figuring out better ways to improve technology
Zopa 2018-01-15 14:47 PST
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