Yeah I knew they were a little farfetched when I saw their head of engineering job spec https://web.archive.org/web/20200406205828/https://jobs.leve... > School/university Olympic medal in competitions in physics, maths or programming :/
> STEM (technical) degree from top 15 unis in the US Don’t bother applying if you went to Cornell, Rice, UCLA, Berkeley, Georgetown, CMU, Georgia Tech, UWA, etc.
What measure are you using for top universities? Looking at US News' top engineering schools, Cornell, UCLA, Berkeley, CMU and Georgia Tech are all in the top 15.
“Primarily, it starts with their CEO Nikolay [Storonsky] being very vocal about their mentality, that if you do a 9-5 [workday] it won't work out...everything he has said is a recipe for burnout” says Stevie Buckley, co-founder of Honest Work and HR advisor to dozens of startups. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/3/18248826/revolut-workplace... https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-trade-unions-labour-...
probably 9to5 state of mind employees not a good fit for a growing startup. Not trying to defend burnout culture rather than job-to-be-done approach.
I also had bad experiences with Revolut including a completely unresponsive customer support. More importantly, what alternatives are available? Ideally: - has an API - reasonably priced or free - works in EU
Bunq.
For day to day usage you need at least a Premium account which is 8 Euro a month. I loved the user experience for doing iDEAL payments but that's all I used it for so I stopped my subscription.
I also had bad experiences with Revolut including a completely unresponsive customer support. More importantly, what alternatives are available? Ideally: - has an API - reasonably priced or free - works in EU
Monzo is better in nearly all ways, except slightly worse exchange rates.
All ways?
They appear to have _literally_ no way to use any of their services except through a phone "app". No thank you. I don't want a toy bank.
Revolut is really scary organization... used them for a year or so, and then one day locked my account... harassed me for 6 months, asking for all sorts of documents, which I provided them. then one day, they closed my account, and sent back 2K balance to random people who sent me money in the past. When contacted them via twitter, the blocked my the same day :)
I couldn’t even register for a business bank account so left a review on Trustpilot. They tried to have it removed as bring fake. Luckily Trustpilot accepted my evidence and reinstated it.
The companies behavior was indeed poor, but I wonder how many people realize that laws that make it hard to reduce your workforce lead to this bad behavior. Business needs change all the time, and being able to adjust your workforce in response is critical. Not being able to do that can be very costly for both the business owners and employees in the long run, or even the short run if the business has revenue or cash…
If the bad behavior is skirting the labor reduction laws, we should get rid of the labor reduction laws to reduce bad behavior? This argument doesn't make sense to me.
You see, you cannot skirt a law if there is no such law.
Revolut founders are from CIS countries (Russia and Ukraine). It quite common for high-school graduates from post-Soviet countries to participate in STEM Olympics as the medal can open the doors to best tech schools without entrance exam. It not so hard as it sounds. I get the two medals on Physics when I was in school, so did plenty of my classmates. I guess by that time they were targeting mainly CIS developers as…
>I guess by that time they were targeting mainly CIS developers as they have and R&D in Moscow. That job was posted last month...
Being from the US it wasn't immediately clear to me why they would do this. Found the relevant part of the article: > In Poland, workers say they were told by their line managers and HR that they were underperforming and would be terminated if they didn’t leave voluntarily. But in Portugal mutual agreements stated that dismissals were a result of a reduction of 40 per cent in the group’s activity and a 30 per cent ex…
I find this approach really weird. I’m not sure about Poland, but at least in the the UK, for a mutual agreement (or settlement agreement) to be valid, the employee _must_ receive independent legal guidance. Anything else and the dismissal would be completely illegal. I’m not sure, but I would guess the Poland has similar or equivalent worker protections (the EU is generally pretty hot on worker protection). Which me…
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the end that obligation is on you - so you can just sign the bit that says "I declare that I received independent advice" and the other party is fine. If you then turn around and say "but it was a lie!" the company can just put their hands up, it's not their problem.
Revolut is really scary organization... used them for a year or so, and then one day locked my account... harassed me for 6 months, asking for all sorts of documents, which I provided them. then one day, they closed my account, and sent back 2K balance to random people who sent me money in the past. When contacted them via twitter, the blocked my the same day :)
Yeah I knew they were a little farfetched when I saw their head of engineering job spec https://web.archive.org/web/20200406205828/https://jobs.leve... > School/university Olympic medal in competitions in physics, maths or programming :/
It's in a set of a couple of other requirements, which they only want one of, and one of the others is "STEM degree from a top 15 school."
The irony is this is exactly how the hiring criteria at some big tech companies looks. They either take people from top schools or people with otherwise impressive accomplishments. Though the rest aren't nearly as transparent about it.