A Trap for Most - Anonymous employee Nuna Employee Review

I’m not disgruntled -- I really just don’t want people to waste their most valuable resource — their time. Nuna is a trap. Maybe for software engineers looking for their first professional experience this is a good move. But for literally everyone else I think Nuna is a trap. Nuna pretends to be a startup but you can’t really claim that after 12 years. They are only around because the CEO is the surrogate daughter of a billionaire named John Doerr. John is no longer trying to make money in his career. This means that Nuna does not work like a normal business. Think of Nuna as John Doerr's foundation where he tinkers with ideas for fun. Nuna’s leaders are his friends and as part of his retirement he simply enjoys flying around with them making deals. So he will never stop funding them as long as he still breathes, no matter how they perform or how many pivots and do-overs they take. No one is ill-intentioned at Nuna. There’s just considerable overconfidence and incompetence. Pair that with this weird universe where there are no consequences for Nuna’s leaders and maybe you start to get the picture. Nuna is on it’s ~12th pivot. After that many pivots, can you really say you have a vision anymore? At best the vision is “fix healthcare with value-based care ideas”. In my view, that is not specific enough, and as a result it causes all kinds of problems. The deals that get made with clients are slapdash and do not set the team up for success. Sometimes they do a deal just to stay “on the board” for future deals — not because it’s work they actually want to be doing. So, of course, given the first opportunity they abandon that work. How would you like to spend the next year of your life assigned to that?