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• Free lunch, snacks, and soft drinks
• Company-branded gifts
• Health and dental insurance
• Gympass
• Fairly young, social, and dynamic workplace with many opportunities to make friends

China in control of everything we do, resulting in some decisions that do not make sense; western leaders actually not in control at all.

No room for career progression, even less so if you want to change department.

No monetary rewards for those who have been in the company for many years. Salary increases are only based on performance reviews, but that process is also unfair in itself as it doesn't actually reflect on performance.

Job cuts out of the blue without pre-warning. Your job could be on the line and you wouldn't know until a month in advance.

The Trust & Safety team is isolated from the rest of the company, making us feel very unwelcome despite the very crucial part of the job that we do to keep the platform safe. Without us, there is no app.

Bonus scheme is not a fair process; very much not in your control despite good performance; it is based on 'quotas' that the company is trying to manage.

Forcing us back to the office 3+ days without any room for flexibility, no sympathy for those who live far.

Withdrawal of a lot of perks in the past year (change of health insurance to downgrade, Gympass also downgraded, less snacks).

I used to praise working for this company. Now, I wouldn't refer anyone, as it is downgrading massively.