Reviewers mostly see The Org as a clean, easy-to-use way to understand company structure, especially for recruiting, employer branding, and job seekers trying to picture a team, role, or culture before applying. Several praise the design, mobile experience, team profiles, and the ability to share colleague context or maintain a public org chart without much hassle. The main recurring drawback is stale or incomplete data, with some users noting missing entities and weak onboarding. One critical review also raises privacy, legal, and phishing-risk concerns around scraped organizational data.

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Pros

user-friendly design (5)

candidate insights (2)

networking tool (2)

public org charts (2)

recruitment tool (2)

transparency (2)

Cons

outdated information (3)

inaccurate data (2)

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•1 review

This product is a hard no for me. While it may have been intended to be useful to understand company hierarchies, it was not planned well. The platform often includes incredibly outdated and inaccurate information, which renders it invaluable to their target audience who have to double check other sources. Creating organizational charts through data scraping raises some serious ethical and legal questions. This reliance on potentially sensitive, non-public data can compromise the privacy of organizations and their employees who did not consent to their information being shared. Making these "charts" so accessible leaves companies vulnerable to phishing attacks, as bad actors could easily use this information to target employees. This creates a false sense of security, making it easier for scams to slip through the cracks.

What needs improvement

privacy concerns (1)inaccurate data (2)outdated information (3)

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4 views1yr ago

•1 review

I recently discovered The Org and Vision while exploring full-time opportunities. Kudos to the team on the successful launch and the seamless design! From a recent grad's perspective, it's a game-changer for networking. While it was still free to me, I utilized Vision's contact features to connect with 8 execs through cold emails. While I understand the primary focus is sales, it's a fantastic tool for job and internship seekers too. Have you thought about offering a free version or a discount for students, perhaps verified through a .edu email? It could be a huge hit among us recent grads and college students mindful of costs.

What's great

user-friendly design (5)networking tool (2)

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3 views2yr ago

•2 reviews

Beautifully designed product, so easy to use on the mobile version! The Org upfronts insights and info on the team for candidates to get an understanding of us, helping even out that information asymmetry in interviews. Secondly, love being able to send links of my teammates' bios on The Org when making introductions because it gives people such rich context in getting to know them before meeting them.

What's great

user-friendly design (5)networking tool (2)transparency (2)candidate insights (2)mobile version (1)

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•1 review

I really love this concept. I think the UI is clever, clean, and minimalist, yet informative. I think the login process and login page can be a bit tightened up, but I assume you are pulling your data from a variety of sources, and maybe it's not always up to date. (For example, I was able to find my parent company, but not the subsidiary I work for. But I imagine those bugs will be squashed over time. Love this idea.

What's great

user-friendly design (5)

What needs improvement

inaccurate data (2)outdated information (3)

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3yr ago

•1 review

I love the idea of transparency within companies. Having hierarchies, teams, company and position profiles makes it clear for both employees and the outside world what a company stands for and who are the people working there. Also, the feature which allows syncing the jobs is nice.

What's great

transparency (2)job syncing (1)

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3yr ago

•1 review

Very easy to use and solves the headache that is building and maintaining an org chart. The public org chart is very useful for recruiting and employer branding so that candidates can see who their colleagues will be.

What's great

user-friendly design (5)public org charts (2)recruitment tool (2)

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3yr ago

•1 review

I'm a big fan of how they listen to their customers and have tried new features and rolled them back in when they realized other companies do them better. It's a great recruitment tool.

What's great

recruitment tool (2)

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3yr ago

•1 review

An effective platform to know how the organization of the companies is. The only bad thing I see is that it is not up-to-date. They should at least update it every 2 or three months

What's great

public org charts (2)

What needs improvement

outdated information (3)

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3yr ago

•1 review

Using it as a candidate really helped me see myself in the role I was interviewing for, understand how I would fit in with the team, and get a sense of the culture.

What's great

candidate insights (2)

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3yr ago

•1 review

It's been a great tool, but it could improve on its onboarding as it has been more self learning mostly

What needs improvement

complex onboarding (1)

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3yr ago