Sinking ship - Anonymous employee HiringThing Employee Review

2.0
30 June 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Unlimited PTO allows for building your workday your way; amazing team members--really incredible people that you work with who give so much to this company and to their team; decent health plan; autonomy

Cons

There was a distinct culture shift when a new product was announced out of the blue (one no clients/users were asking for). Many people left then. Since then, the culture has continued to plummet as has morale and trust in leadership, especially C-suite. The CEO is an incompetent and ineffectual leader and salesperson and needs to be replaced if HiringThing has any hope of surviving. Strong companies replace their CEOs every decade or so and this is a practice HT desperately needs to implement. They love to throw a former sales leader under the bus without acknowledging that individual's success and note the year with no sales was while under the CEO's sole supervision after that prior individual left. HT has continued to show they don't fully buy into their own value of transparency or that they actually care about their team. This has been evident in many ways but no more so than with a recent lay off event that came out of the blue. And while layoffs themselves are tough for any company, there are good and bad ways to go about them and HT chose the most humiliating, embarrassing and disrespectful way to announce not only the layoff but who was impacted. When asked about why the layoff was done in such a way, the CEO refuses to have a conversation and gets defensive, even after opening the floor to questions. This has been a long-standing trend in which he is incapable of handling questions about his actions. Half the team (or more) are now looking elsewhere. Many are questioning whether HT will be selling to one of their partners considering the timing. Trust has been shattered as has faith in the company and its leaders. Something needs to change or this company will continue to go down the toilet.

Explore other reviews about HiringThing

5.0
1 Dec 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Company works closely together -Concerned about employees, environment is relatively horizontal

Cons

-A lot of work for few people. You cannot coast

1.0
19 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Wonderful people to work with - Flexible work hours - Decent pay for the market

Cons

- Direct management and top level management are not on the same page. They do not communicate with you if they have a problem with what you are working on. - Constantly shifting priorities, change expectations for projects, and are more focused on getting new features out fast than well done, making older code brittle, hard to work with and prone to issues. - No project managers means multiple bugs or features might be worked on at the same time duplicating work without the engineers knowing. - Single point of failure on one or two people being available to help with issues because of overly complex code that is never given the time needed to actually fix things. - If the company leaders feel like you are unneeded they will fire you for "performance" without any kind of previous communication or using tools to make sure a person aligns with expectations. You can have a great performance review and be fired a couple months later.

2
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All