A sinking ship in a blue ocean. - Anonymous employee BetterUp Employee Review

1.0
17 July 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Outside of the executive team, we have some incredibly smart and amazing people.

Cons

-CEO is EGOtistical and believes he’s the smartest person in the company. He has to go. -Culture: over the last 2 yrs I’ve personally seen our culture do a 180. The executive team likes to sound as if they’re collaborative but all ideas fall on deaf ears due to the dictatorship. -The executive team is constantly changing GTM strategies and COVID-19 has really exposed us. One minute it’s leadership development, the next it’s resilience, D&I. We’re lost. Every single internal call I’ve had the last 4-5 has been one of fear, doubt and uncertainty because my colleagues and I don’t know where we’re headed and wondering if we’ve hit the “iceberg.”

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BetterUp Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide this review. We take feedback on our employee experience seriously. We would be happy to engage in dialogue with you to improve our workplace and we hope to hear from you soon. You can reach the People Team at hr@betterup.co. - BetterUp People Team

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