Pros
Coworkers are nice and some of the work is interesting.
Cons
On the surface, Leap appears to be an awesome place to work. But then there is the leadership team that is completely uninterested in the well being of their employees. For instance: - They’re quick to send swag packages so that they have social media-post worthy pictures to share. While their owner continuously makes poor business decisions that lead to employees working on their vacations, unnecessary crunch time during the holidays, or mandatory in-office work days during a pandemic. - Despite continually boasting about competitive pay, they are WELL below market pay rates and will challenge you on that fact. When they don’t realize that employees all know each other’s pay and have researched pay rates based on experience online. It’s NOT a surprise that when people leave Leap, they’re offered double their salary. It’s not that the offer is that great at the other company it’s just that Leap is cheap. - Decisions are made in a vacuum and their leadership team forms a convenient echo chamber where they hear how great they are in a continuous loop thus no improvements are ever made. It’s difficult to make improvements when you’re always right and have validation from your peers. - Don’t be fooled by the unlimited vacation policy. They will deny you if they think you’ve had too much. What’s problematic about this is that there’s no guidance on what that means! To put this in perspective requests aren’t denied from abuse. We are talking vacations over 20 days. Which is nice for some, but the low pay makes this problematic for those that intend to offset the lower pay with a decent vacation policy. Also, many can’t even take that much considering the owner likes to over commit to work. Ask yourself why they have so many roles open. It’s not because of growth, it’s because they’ve lost over 2/3 of their staff last year. Some due to “layoffs” where they terminated the employee the same day and gave them only 2 weeks severance and a month of insurance. The rest due to the company itself, for reasons including low compensation, lack of guidance and development and poor work/life balance even while remote. Also ask why there are so many positive reviews. Leap made it a part of the employee appraisal to share posts on social media for every employee — something I refused to do. I sat and watched people who I know for a fact hated working there, post happily on Linked in about the company.