ADPListReviews of adplist.org

I am surprised that not so many reviews here talk about how bad the technical part of the website actually is. I am not sure if ADPList is testing features and bugs with exactly my profile but for the last couple of weeks the website became almost impossible for me to use. I couldn't message anyone for one week even though I reported the issue directly - probably, not being able to communicate on the platform at all was not seen as critical enough issue. For the last week, my profile was paused three times without any reason, the criteria of pausing profiles do not make sense, as the email with the pausing notification said "We have paused your account as a mentor because we noticed that you either have not accepted 5 booking requests in total. All requests expire after 48 hours of there being no response.". First, not accepting 5 requests IN TOTAL should not be the reason of pausing the profile - I am still actively giving sessions to my mentees. Second, the reason why the requests were not accepted from my side in the first place, was that on the website it is clearly stated that I have 3 days to confirm or decline a request. Here in the email it is only 48 hours out of a sudden. Third, the sentence "either have not accepted 5 booking requests in total" is not even logically finished. Other issues I had include not counting my sessions even though I was present and waited for 10 minutes for a mentee, not being able to open incoming messages, not being able to reschedule a session, sessions disappearing after one day, not being able to open a mentee's or mentor's profile, not being able to see a mentee's name, AI insights not being generated and my settings changed to enable autoaccepting sessions without my permission and without any notice. The team is very slow to react to issues and resolve bugs - and it is pointless anyway because while they are working on resolving one issue, another one appears immediately after. The user experience issues were already addressed in the other reviews and I can only agree: the website is not intuitive at times and is partially structured in a not so logical way. Felix the co-founder sent me a generic email two weeks ago saying "you had a mentorship session on adplist recently. did it actually help?" and asking to leave a review. Last time a had a session on ADPList as a mentee was on 17th of June, so it was not quite recently. I answered and addressed my technical issues and never got any response back. I did not want to leave a bad review but I feel like I won't be heard otherwise. ADPList needs to invest much more in software development. It seems to me that the UX and software development expertise is severly lacking and no proper CI/CD pipelines are configured. Otherwise, I wouldn't experience so many bugs that made the platform basically unusable for me.

The tutor only talked with me for 2 mins, then left for personal matter.

It's a good idea, but the mentors don't show up. I booked with many mentors, and only 2 showed up. A lot of them didn't. Even mentors with good ratings don't show up. So it's a waste of time.

Don't even bother yourself with this website. I booked with so many mentors and they all even showed up to the meeting, wait of my time.

As a new mentor on ADPlist, I had high hopes but encountered several significant issues that I feel other mentors should be aware of. The most troubling issue is the lack of transparency around AI recording and call summaries. The platform implemented this feature without proper warning to users, and many mentors (myself included) discovered that calls were being recorded and processed by AI without explicit consent. Even more concerning, the feature remains enabled for mentors who have explicitly opted out. This raises serious questions about compliance and ethics. The user interface suffers from numerous usability problems that make the platform frustrating to navigate. Additionally, there are profile fields (like gender information) that don't appear anywhere visible to mentees, making you wonder how this data is actually being used if it's not helping mentees find appropriate mentors. The initial completely free model has created problematic dynamics in the tech workers community, as it contributed to the concerning trend of commoditizing expertise - sending the message that companies shouldn't invest in employee development when free mentorship is available elsewhere. While paid options now exist, they're not accessible to most mentors, and new mentors receive no recognition for experience gained elsewhere. The entire platform appears to be inspired by the Silicon Valley "move fast, break things" mentality (with it being explicitly mentioned as a principle guiding the company). This approach can only lead to disaster, not just in software development generally (as we've unfortunately seen too often), but especially when applied to the deeply personal concept of one-on-one mentorship and relationship building. These relationships require trust, care, and thoughtful consideration, not rushed implementations and privacy violations. I'm hoping for a different platform developed by more thoughtful people to eventually substitute this one. The professional development community deserves better.

Very Good UI/UX, but the mentors don't show up and actually, it's just a waste of time.

A disappointing organisation that doesn't have the interpersonal skills to manage Mentors that never show up. At the ned of the day, they would still support Mentors rather than mentees, ignoring their misconduct and not caring about the impact it has on a mentee, a person who needs the support here. Also, the booking calendar is limited to one session, you don't get a response from a mentor and then have to wait till the end of the session to book another session, which is a shame.