Great team and product, the worst leadership - Anonymous employee Craft.co Employee Review

2.0
15 Mar 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people, interesting product, good benefits

Cons

Awful leadership, very long hours, watching your colleagues get treated badly, growing sentiment of anti-remote work despite being promised this was a remote position, performative activism for Ukraine but ignoring Belarus where some of our colleagues live, terrible engineering processes despite being hardest working team

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Craft.co Response
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Thank you for your feedback. I’m glad you appreciated our benefits, product and team. I’m also saddened to hear about your assessment of leadership and that you witnessed colleagues being treated poorly. We have just hired a new Head of People Operations that will be laser focused on manager training, performance management processes, and creating a strong culture of belonging and psychological safety. So we should now have a solid team for you, and anyone else to bring this feedback to if you’re not comfortable coming to me directly. But I am always available and would be all ears if you’d like to discuss these things further. We are always striving to improve our leadership skills, hold managers accountable and create a safe place for all of our team members around the globe. That said, consistent with our value of “Humility,” we (myself included) are constantly learning and improving (from both successes and setbacks). Thank you again for your feedback. Respectfully, Ilya Levtov (CEO)

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

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