A tremendous opportunity for learning and social impact - Mitarbeiter (anonym) bei Driptech: Mitarbeiterbewertung

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23. Juni 2014
Mitarbeiter (anonym)
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What I like most about working at Driptech is the opportunity to learn and the impact that our products have on the lives of farmers. When I came to Driptech, I was already strong in strategy, finance and analysis. At Driptech, I started working on our fundraising with investors and business development. This morphed into institutional sales when I moved to India to start our local office. Then I took on product management and marketing, before my current role as COO (where I've learned a lot about HR and corporate accounting). It's a creative open environment where I can try new things, and make a difference. Few products or programs available for the poor have as big an impact as our drip irrigation systems. Doubling a farmer's income in a year and providing full payback in 6 months is a really incredible value proposition. And though I don't have as much field time as I used to, I love to travel, and it's fun to sell a tangible product that involves being outside in nature.

Kontras

The challenges I have faced are similar to many start-ups. My vision for the company doesn't always match everyone else's, and compromise is required. But I can always express my viewpoint. In the past, we have not had sufficient focus, executional speed, or delegation. There's been a lot of work, long hours, and sacrifice of personal relationships. At times working late at night, I would have liked to have seen my fellow managers shouldering more of the work along with me. A lot has changed at Driptech over the past year as we've transitioned from a US engineering core to an Indian sales & marketing core. I look forward to seeing what Driptech can accomplish next with renewed focus.

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27. Juni 2014
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I joined Driptech with three reasons; 1) practice my engineering skill, 2) apply Design Thinking/ Lean Startup process to solve real-world problems, and 3) learn more about social entrepreneurship. I got them all while I was at the company. On top of that, being in startup environment, I got to do many different things, which to me, it's a really valuable experience. Seeing Driptech growing from a single-digit number of employees to renting out a huge facility in India, it's unbelievable. Driptech has gone through several phases. But I'm sure its mission/vision hasn't changed.

Kontras

At a high level, Driptech's business model is really challenging. Economy of scale is key, for profitability and social impact. In order to scale to that level, it needs tremendous resources. At the same time, if the Mother Nature isn't on its side, that's going to be rough. (Driptech mainly sells drip tapes which are generally used in dry season only.) To add more complexity, at a startup, there's no existing process/system. Employees need to learn and build it, which could be frustrating/confusing sometimes. That said, it's not a generic company that someone can just clock-in, clock-out and wait to climb up a corporate ladder.

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Thanks for the feedback. We have seen our product dramatically change lives of farmers across the world, and we thank you and our other team members for their contribution to that. All of our team members have great opportunities to learn and have much more independence than they would normally have at a larger company. We have worked to dramatically improve transparency in the past year. Please do continue to share ideas on further improvements there.
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23. Juni 2014
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Dear All Job seekers, My decision to join Driptech has been one of the best and honest move in my career path to be working in Agriculture sector. The exposure and experience I gained with Driptech has further deepened my love and passion to work in the Agri sector and start-ups. I learn many things like persistence in work, proactively involve in problem solving and became an good source of all information top any team members, taking an complete ownership of given task and be responsible for it. In Driptech, you will find completely encouraging, forward thinking and friendly environment with amazing co-workers to support and encourage you. I have seen Driptech grow and evolve in the last two years and I should say I am lucky to have witness and been part of this growth phase and I wish I would have really like to be a part of Driptech's journey forward and contribute more.

Kontras

In an efforts to prevent extra costs being passed onto the consumer, company hangs onto unreliable and costly source of raw material suppliers and not encouraging company to launch any new variants. Need to avoid excessive spending on unnecessary overheads, which increases the company burden unnecessarily.

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