Unhealthy corporate culture - Anonymous employee Bypass Employee Review

2.0
9 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very cool product with a lot of potential. The company seems to have a pretty solid cash flow and a plan for where they want to go. They're growing quickly Compensation is decent. Unlimited paid time off.

Cons

Management employs tactics that are severely detrimental to company culture, morale, and employee wellbeing: Only accomplishments that involved a great deal of work outside normal business hours are recognized/rewarded Initiatives are occasionally announced requiring employees to accomplish more work than normal for a certain period of time. Often the "we are a startup after all" card is played. In at least one instance, additional mandatory work hours were set. No bonuses While the company expects employees to refine their skills on their own time, no training/development/assistance is provided. Even when the company is trying to hire/grow rapidly, employees are regularly fired unexpectedly and with minimal explanation Some departments have an after-hours and weekend on-call rotation that ranges from minor annoyance to brutally soul-crushing ordeal. There is also an unspoken expectation that even if you're not on call, you're generally reachable via HipChat and will respond to questions Most of the employees, including "senior" management are relatively young. There are no seasoned veterans. Staff is very homogenous. Very little diversity. No HR department. They tout this as a benefit, which maybe it could be, but many of the aforementioned shenanigans would not happen with HR oversight Being a relatively flat organization, there's room to move laterally, but not up.

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5.0
18 June 2020
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Pros

- Motivated, focused team of adults all working towards same goal - Recently acquired, our benefits package was affected for the better - Relatively zero ramp-up time when work-from-home hit due to COVID-19...the transition has been smooth, almost frictionless - The culture has never felt stronger in the years I've been here

Cons

- No matter how fast you move, it feels like you should be moving faster to capitalize on all the opportunity in the mobile & contactless markets now. I wish we moved a little faster and didn't have to say no to some prospects in markets we are not yet the best fit for - Acquisition occured a few days into quarantine, so integration to new parent company has been stop-and-go - Some benefits we received due to the acquisition have been reduced or slashed due to COVID-19

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3.0
11 July 2025
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Pros

good way to bypass this

Cons

long working hours tough management

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