Cool product, difficult owner - Anonymous employee PaperThin Employee Review

1.0
9 June 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The CommonSpot product is pretty cool, and I enjoyed the company of almost everyone at PaperThin.

Cons

The owner is an extreme micro manager. He calls people who are sick, keeping them on the phone for hours to make sure they are still doing as much work as they possibly can while sick. He sets arbitrary deadlines months too early, so that everyone is perpetually working in a high-stress "eleventh hour" crunch mode. He yells at someone (could be anyone) once a day on average, loud enough for everyone in the office to hear. Compensation is mediocre.

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4.0
29 Apr 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Job Satisfaction. The day to day tasks were exciting.

Cons

Less Pay. Micro management and no focus on getting the product out of the door.

1.0
8 May 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers were all great people who were fun to work with and very talented and supported each other in the horrible work environment. The CommonSpot product had a lot of potential had the company not been so poorly managed.

Cons

The owner of the company is in a constant state of barely contained seething rage and actively seeks out any employee on which he can unleash. Not a difficult boss situation but way beyond that to actually downright abusive. No career advancement opportunities. No pay raises. Benefits change to different medical insurance provider annually depending on who is cheaper and coverage expensive and not great. Pay well below industry standards. Nobody is doing sales or marketing (everyone left) and business suffers which fuels the hostile environment.

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