Watched them ignore every problem until it collapsed - Anonymous Gesture Employee Review

1.0
7 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You'll get incredible experience problem-solving entirely on your own since nobody else is going to help.

Cons

The whole thing hinges on this unspoken rule where if you point out something broken you're somehow the problem, and I watched that destroy people's willingness to even try speaking up. They talk constantly about collaboration and being open but there's zero actual response when you bring stuff up — it just gets filed away like you never said anything, and everyone knew it, which is almost worse than straight-up telling you to shut up. Management doesn't want to fix problems, they want problems to not exist, which creates this awful gap between what's actually happening and what they're pretending is happening. It's not one big dramatic failure, it's more like a slow leak where people just gradually accept that nothing's going to change so why bother, and that becomes the actual culture even though nobody wants to admit it. By the end it felt like the whole place was running on fumes with people who'd given up, including me, and I realized I was staying way too long hoping things would shift when they clearly weren't going to.

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5.0
8 Nov 2023
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Pros

Team was filled with energy and was always positive to get things done

Cons

Great space to be around, location was a bit far

4.0
12 June 2026
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Pros

You won't be bored, you will learn a lot, you will definitely meet great people. Funded and staffed with a great board of supporting characters..

Cons

Like all startups you really have to be willing to pivot fast and it's not for everybody. This place moves fast and turns on a dime if agility isn't your thing this might not be the place for you. There are a startup, but they're going from moving fast to moving slow and smart now you just have to deal with the growing pains.

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