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Reviews are not accurate due to employees being contractually banned from openly speaking negatively. - Anonymous employee Paradox Employee Review

1.0
20 Jan 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great product and a lot of great people once worked here.

Cons

Many! Cult like atmosphere that’s reinforced with a cult like leadership training. People in leadership that are put into positions based on loyalty and not ability. Some in leadership have only ever worked for this CEO their entire professional careers and have no versatility. A murky and secretive road map of where the company is going. Only the CEO can make even the tiniest decisions. Extreme pay discrepancies between employees performing the same tasks. Hiring is obviously done based on looks. This is especially true for inexperienced nice looking interns who somehow find themselves rubbing elbows the CEO in a short amount of time. There is a joke around the office that the CEO clearly has a “type”. Environment is toxic and immature. Promotions here are based on likability which comes from the cult leadership deciding if they like you enough to talk you up to the CEO. Any career move or raise is only approved via a private meeting with the CEO. Everyone dreads these meeting and some leave in tears.

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Pros

- Rewarding start-up/scale-up environment - Truly a values driven culture - Market leading product - Mission / product / team to believe in + be proud of - Client obsession - A Player culture - Open conversations welcomed - Opportunity to create - Amazing, genuine teammates who often turn into friends

Cons

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2.0
10 Oct 2024
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Pros

The interview scheduling module and the initial candidate experience is really what hooked me. I thought "I want to work on tech like this." The individual contributors on my team and within client success were great to work with and the pay was good.

Cons

Lack of structure or consistent process across the organization. Cross-functional team cooperation and partnership were mostly poor or non-existent. I did not feel I had the tools or knowledge I needed to do my job efficiently or to the standard with which I'd been accustomed to at larger software companies. Severe lack of product documentation and what was documented was frequently out of date or you had to hunt through 13 Slack channels to find an answer. Maybe this is typical for a start up but what's sad is that it didn't have to be this way.

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