Pathetic Leadership, Toxic Culture - Anonymous employee Glassdoor Employee Review

2.0
2 July 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Catered lunches Office in Marin on water

Cons

Senior execs are out of touch, petty and fail regularly at good communication. Leadership at all levels like to talk about transparency but do not walk their talk. No females on board of directors. Executive team very male-centric. Decisions are made by the few at the top while others are left to manage the day to day with low pay and very low team morale everywhere. Favoritism abounds on finance team, with one select group getting very obvious preferential treatment. Culture is young, clique-ish, immature. Salaries are low and HR likes to make excuses for not giving people raises commiserate with their titles, promotions, experience and past performance. Lots of excuses why things cannot be done for certain people while rules are bent or flat-out ignored for others. People with no management experience are promoted without adequate training. Overall, the same old same old - there are pets who get the money and the promotions. If you dare raise your voice about a sincere concern or problem, you're vilified. Poor behavior and harassment overlooked if you've been at the company long enough. Members of the leadership team are overly dramatic and have temper tantrums. If you are an individual contributor, you are expected to suck up this behavior. Men are treated differently than women. Favoritism abounds.

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Glassdoor Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. I believe transparency is an essential part of our culture and who we are at Glassdoor. As a company, we make significant efforts to live and breathe transparency at all levels and provide transparency through our All Hands, #askthecoo slack channels and other forums. This includes transparency around how we pay, promote and how we work with our own employees. I'm disappointed to hear that these efforts aren’t aligned with your experience. If you’d be willing to, I invite you to share more with me on how you think we can be more transparent. My door is always open. It is personally very important to me that every employee feels they can thrive and grow here and have equal opportunity for advancement.

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