Away Reviews

Read The Verge article, Daily Mail, and Business Insider about Aways culture before applying. Also don’t believe everything you read! The CEO asked a select group of people to write positive reviews (requests were made in a private slack channel). Also, the communications team responds to all of these messages. Many employees are under NDA and aren’t comfortable posting reviews. Additionally, every employee has stock options so don’t review the company in fear the options will be taken away. People cry at the office and are often distressed. There’s a deep fear that they’ll be fired or berated. HR didn’t feel confidential or proactive. There are many same day firings with no warnings. Team members are so terrified that they screenshot their slack messages and some team members even secretly record their one on one meetings. Our cofounder had 7 assistants in one year. No one could learn their names fast enough. It’s an impressive company, which is why it makes it hard to recognize how manipulative and twisted it is to its employees. It’s fun to be part of something new, shiny, and successful which creates a cult-like culture. Leadership says jump - we say how high. You’re looked down upon for working from home and for taking PTO. After a very disconcerting expose from The Verge about the company’s culture, leadership ignored it. They encouraged employees to pretend nothing happened as opposed to creating a collaborative and healthy discourse about culture. Please be wary when applying.

-Everything you've read about the mean girl culture is true. Totally unsurprising given the demeanors/personalities of the founders and the fact that very few real adults work here. -Promotions and terminations are NOT AT ALL based on competence (and no, I was not fired). They are based on random personal preferences of VPs and Execs. History shows that if you are a very mean and/or pretty girl, you will probably succeed here. Management makes a lot of promotion/termination decisions based on personal vendettas/emotional whims. Also, there are a ton of politics at play. If you get in the way of the wrong exec that the founders love, you will be removed, regardless of how good you are at your job. -No one has any idea what they're doing. There are a ton of super inexperienced millennials with inflated titles since they just happened to "get in early" and management has no idea how to reshuffle after the absurd growth the company has seen. -The company will do anything for a headline, regardless of whether it is ethical or honest, hence the PR/Comms/Brand/Experiential jobs being better than most.