Don't Trust the Good Reviews - Anonymous employee FareHarbor Employee Review

1.0
9 July 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A lot of the workforce is young and ambitious, which can make for a wonderful group of peers.

Cons

No one in management has any idea how to run a company. There is no communication, no metrics for growth, no feedback, and often outright dishonesty from the CEO, Lawrence Hester. Under different leadership, FH could be an amazing company. Unfortunately, Lawrence is unfit to run a company (the failure of his previous company should be the first hint), and is borderline-unfit to interact with other human beings. He is dishonest, incompetent, vindictive, and cruel. He is convinced of his own intelligence, despite there being no evidence to support the idea that his intellect is anything above middling. But here's the important part: when negative Glassdoor reviews started coming in, Lawrence made a lot of employees go write positive reviews. Obviously you can't force employees to do something like that, but his reputation for vindictiveness is known throughout the company--and most of the Colorado startup community--and employees feared that he would fire them if they didn't write good reviews to balance out all of the honest ones. Bottom line: the software is excellent, the development team is highly-skilled, but the company is run by a madman, and he will almost certainly run it right into the ground.

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FareHarbor Response
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We are confident this was written by a competitor of ours. They have posted a few fake Glassdoor reviews in the past (all of which Glassdoor was keen enough to take down). They actually have gone as far as to have engaged in an email campaign to our clients in which they link to this exact review. If you are interviewing with us, I urge you to come in, meet the people, talk with us, and make a decision about our character on your own.

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