Yikes - Anonymous employee Commure Employee Review

This is my third startup and it’s by far the worst place I’ve worked. I came over in the Augmedix acquisition. Executive leadership is highly inexperienced. Many VPs and almost the entirety of the C-suite are in their 20s, which is cute and maybe impressive when you’re a small startup trying to raise money, but is an absolute disaster when a 1,000+ employee company needs to be run and businesses that have been acquired need to be integrated. If you are acquired by Commure/Athelas, beware. As of right now, there is no centralized M&A function ensuring these mergers go well. As a result, there is no strategy and integrating the businesses is clunky and slow. The main strategy behind M&A seems to be to simply grow to be too big to fail, since many of the products make no sense as a package despite leaderships’ desire to become the “Microsoft Office suite of products for healthcare”. The value “speed above all else” is touted as law, so instead of being intentional, strategic, and working smarter not harder, you are rewarded for looking busy, pushing work onto other people, and throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks. So much time and energy is wasted at this company due to a complete lack of strategy, and this is a problem that trickles down from the executive level. Because leadership hires yes men, relatives, or both, this problem is not going away soon. At some point this company has to mature beyond a chaotic, early-stage startup and it doesn’t have the leadership it needs to do so.