Toxic Culture Exemplified by the Fake Positive Reviews.
Pros
- While most of the good managers are gone, there are still a few left. - Good opportunity to move laterally into other departments. - Great technology -- only uses Apple, Slack, etc. - There are members of management who DO want better for the company and are actively trying to fix the huge gap in diversity and DEI at Phone2Action. - A new CEO is joining who can hopefully fix the issues the old CEO ignored or perpetuated.
Cons
- Toxic work culture and workplace. Run by a shady venture capital company littered with far-right conspiracy theorists at the highest levels of leadership, who seem to hire folks who look coincidentally just like them. There is a reason the diversity jumped ship after the acquisition but upper-management would rather frame it as partisan bickering rather than a true divergence from the company's core values. **Current Sales and CS executive-leadership has a lot to answer for here, when it comes to driving out diversity.** - For anybody reading this, management has been posting fake positive reviews to drive up the score on Glassdoor; many of the reviews are from people with positions that haven't been hired for yet. Someone pretended to be the brand manager to post a positive review when there is no brand manager. Read the reviews and see for yourself. This is a key indicator of toxicity. - Legacy and long-lasting employees are leaving every day in a manner not too different from what happened at Basecamp; we are not allowed to discuss politics/current affairs/news on general channels -- only specific channels which no longer even exist for employees. Those who criticize or speak out have been censored. A few of them fired too, but conveniently for other reasons. - Employees are replaceable and the CEO champions a "if you don't like it then leave" attitude toward folks who have given blood, sweat and tears to the company. - No positive reinforcement at all, from anyone. It's only negative incentives to drive productivity. The subtext has always been "if you have a problem then leave; we'll find somebody who wants your job instead of you." - Fear culture. Constantly anxious you will be fired for no reason. You spend more time worrying about your job than you do being able to effectively perform it.
