Honestly, I never should have accepted a job at Bloomreach - red flags were there from day one. Key example - when my recruiter made the initial offer I countered asking for $10k more. He said that there was a potential for the offer to be rescinded for asking for more and wanted to make sure I was comfortable with that risk. I said “yep” and what do you know, they didn’t rescind the offer. If you’re interviewing here — don’t fall for this.
Culture here is in free-fall. It’s great that they are remote first but many managers seem to have no idea how to actually build a cohesive, remote team and model positive communication and collaboration skills.
Not family friendly. My manager has told me that they consider it important to feel passionate about my work because I will spend more time here than with my children. Left a very bad taste in my mouth.
Problems originating at the top of the chain of command will roll downhill - be prepared to take responsibility for anything and everything in a spirit of “radical ownership”.
Management is inconsistent and often contradictory - the one consistent is that there are plenty of line managers, but few who actually know how to LEAD.
Annual raises are paltry, even for high performers.
Employees are encouraged to provide constructive (negative) feedback on Lattice as a shortcut for not creating a company culture where coworkers can freely communicate issues directly with one another - instead we are encouraged to wait for a review cycle to give feedback that could have been shared in real time.
It’s the worst possible combination of a start up and established company. It has all the chaos, extreme workloads, ambiguity and unstructured, poorly defined processes combined with the inefficiencies, silos, and tribal knowledge of an established monolith.
Management loves to “lean in” to the messiness of how things are structured but when they are faced with the consequences of the chaos that they have helped shape, they will blame their team rather than take any ownership.
