Not quite the unicorn - Anonymous employee Branch Employee Review

When I started Branch, I wanted was to create a place where people have the chance to grow by being challenged with opportunities they wouldn't get anywhere else. While I'm sad to read this note and hear your impression of recent events, I am happy that you felt challenged while you were here. Now onto the recent reduction in force and your experience: I understand where you come from - it was an incredibly hard experience for everyone, but most of all for those affected - I am truly sorry. Across the economy, every company from early stage startup, to fast growing unicorn, to large public company are all taking similar action to Branch and my heart goes out to all affected. Certainly, if we could have anticipated this economic downturn, we certainly wouldn't created plans to grow the company for as much as we had before. I wish I could have predicted the future. Ultimately, as a growing company, our job is to remain nimble so that we can deliver continued and reliable service to our customers and further our mission to solve app discovery. We couldn't be absolutely certain how long the economy would be frozen, and so we had to take dramatic action to ensure Branch could survive even the worst of the upcoming few years. If things change and our predictions were more severe than reality, we will definitely be reaching out to those affected to try to hire them back. We're all hoping that things recover quickly. In the meantime, I hope you'll take advantage of the resources we've enabled to help you in this transition.