It started off OK - Newsletter Editor Future Employee Review

3.0
26 Feb 2025
Recommend
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Pros

PTO is pretty good on paper: unlimited vacation, plus 80 hours of sick pay, although it sometimes felt like a burden on coworkers to use it. Dental premium is low; medical is eh. Has 401(k) match -- I don't remember how much. Has stock award, and you can buy stock. Decent day-to-day work-life balance because of remote work.

Cons

Most of my time at Future was really at SmartBrief. I was there before and after Future bought it, and things were way better before. Future has the typical large-company culture: hustle and do more with less. Most of my immediate coworkers were wonderful people, and I miss them. But a lot of the things good about SmartBrief/Future had disappeared by the time I was laid off. Quality didn't really matter anymore -- just get it done. I wouldn't say stay away from Future, but if you enjoy being an individual contributor, this is not the place for you. You're not going to fit unless you're a climber (and willing to step on people along the way).

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5.0
15 Jan 2026
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Pros

Good pay Great benefits Cares about work-life balance

Cons

Sometimes makes poor hiring decisions to fill roles

1.0
12 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

shiny looking website they spent an exuberant amount of money on

Cons

They exploit their employees ferociously. If you love yourself or your life - do not work for this company. Clients - don't sign up! They do programs and pretend it's custom. They spend hundreds of thousands to hire new shiny CEOs but pay their coaches around $40k/year to maintain 100 clients. You are not special - they just put up a lot of metrics to pretend to make you feel that way. No coach can actually connect with 100 clients and write a personalized program. That's why the "management" pushes coaches to use as many templates as they can. They do big lay offs of any coaches who don't want to maintain 100+ people. They also are actively working to use any/all Apple Watch data to sell and use in any way they can monetize. So DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR APPLE WATCH DATA. It's smoke and mirrors and not anything actually useful (especially for the pricepoint they are asking!)

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