[Nickste]

As HN places significant value on innovation and entrepreneurship, I suspect that there will be a number of comments on this post calling out Rocket as a parasitic clone machine who steal good ideas from hard working startups and throw massive capital at these clone businesses in developing markets.

While this is definitely a valid criticism, I'd urge you to read this post: http://posts.richoakley.com/post/rocket-internet-respect which argues that we, as entrepreneurs, have a lot to learn from the way Rocket has managed to execute so phenomenally well in each of the developing markets it has targeted.

Especially given a few recent posts on HN detailing failed attempts at startups, I think the above post highlights the importance of being able to consistently execute in a business.

[biafra]

I am not criticising them for being a clone company. Especially not when they are cloning companies that are not interested to come to europe.

I think they treat their employees bad.

I have worked for one of their companies as a freelancer and I would never want be an employee there. It was an eye opening experience though.

I would recommend not working for them without researching their modus operandi first. If you like to be yelled at in meetings and told a three year old would do better work than you, maybe this is the right place to work - for you.