Beware! These guys are a start-up on the way down. - Operations Maker's Row Employee Review

1.0
17 Dec 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The concept. It's great and could be brilliantly executed if the Founders got out of the way.

Cons

Where to start. Basically this is a company that makes no revenue, is fast losing investors, can't raise capital and has founders which think they're doing it tough because they're a racial minority. If you don't fit their racial minority boxes expect to be discriminated against. They actually fired all foreigners and "non-minority" workers. I sat in hiring discussions where they wouldn't hire people because they'd come from more affluent families or were too "white- middle class" (to quote the CEO). Frankly these people are a disaster (& law suit) waiting to happen. And that's before everything else.

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Maker's Row Response
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We greatly appreciate positive and critical feedback from team members, users and the greater general public as it continues to push us to improve as a team and as individuals. We must, however, in this particular review address a number of inaccuracies: For those interested in our diversity, here is a breakdown: 3 African American / Black 3 Latino / Hispanic 4 Asian American 9 White - 3 in senior level or management positions 11 women, 8 men You can learn more about the team here: makersrow.com/team As you can see, we believe in diverse workplaces, and do not discriminate against employees based on race, gender, sexual orientation, economic background or religion. We have never and will never disqualify a candidate based on these variables. We care about ensuring that our workplace is friendly and that our team is as diverse as our online community. As for revenue: we have a healthy stream of revenue that is consistently growing, happy customers, and have helped thousands of businesses stay in business or get started. We have helped create hundreds of American jobs. While we are building our core product features we are not fundraising, so claims of “losing” investors are inaccurate, and unsubstantiated, as are the revenue figures mentioned in the above review. We have had to put some team members on improvement plans. Our leadership team is dedicated to listening to team members and their direct reports and when we hear of mismanagement, wrongdoing and unfriendly behavior, we give that feedback to management and the team member so that behavior can be improved. While we are not perfect, we continue to dedicate ourselves and team members to continued growth. We are actively hiring for an Operations leader, with someone that shares our values and vision.

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