Emakina reviews

3.8

79% would recommend to a friend

(138 total reviews)
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Arkadiy Dobkin

63% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Emakina has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 138 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Emakina employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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138 reviews
3.0
May 22, 2020

Not keeping promises

Recommend
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Pros

- Fleeeexible working hours. If you work for an entity with different timezone, you can just simply put more "e"s - Colleagues with high-level knowledge - Chance to work with people from different cultues - In case of need, they provide free english courses in the office (Yes, in working hours. Yes, for real. And yes, company has an english teacher.) - Colleagues are extremely friendly except a few ones. - Happy hours, playstation rooms. - International business trips.

Cons

- Management literally decreases salaries - Limited room for self-deployment - Management makes poll for employee related decisions and doesn't care the results. I think they're having fun by doing that. Otherwise there is no purpose of that. - Almost every project is CMS. CMS is everywhere...

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Emakina Response
6y
We do not decrease salaries but fluctuations of EUR to TRY change rates may affect salaries paid in EUR and converted to TRY, sometimes getting higher, sometimes getting lower. We are studying the best way to protect our employees from those fluctuations and may revert all salaries to be in TRY.
2.0
Jul 6, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Multi-national teams, therefore frequent English usage. - Kitchen is great, coffee machine, beverages, fruits - High-quality colleagues(I think it's changing) - Relaxed environment, no one checks what you do - Play station room - Working hours are flexible

Cons

- Huge salary differences between people doing the same job. Some people might earn half of your salary, some people earn more than double. - The technology stack is shallow in the backend. CMS platforms are used even when it's not needed(no custom backend) because big clients ask for them. - You won't work projects in Turkey, projects are in foreign offices and TR is a delivery center. So what you do and how management acts completely depends on your relationship with the foreign office. TR management doesn't have any effect on your assignment to the projects (which is your whole work). - If you don't have any project(Maybe the foreign office didn't like you much), it's expected for you to wait for months without any work. You can work on whatever you want in this period. - You can't trust management, lots of promises are made and not kept. Even when there is a positive improvement, it might not be long term.(euro-based salary, excuse leave rights for some days, shuttle) - Office location is painful to reach with public transportation, you need to walk 1.5km after metro, no other choice. - Outside of the office is not for you to relax, people just stand outside. - The lighting of the office is not nice. You see the sun directly sometimes or you can't see your screen, or time to time it's too dark or too bright. It's painful. - Air conditioning works loudly. - After management changes, talented people are leaving the company.

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