Not all it's cracked up to be - Anonymous employee Pymetrics Employee Review

1.0
16 July 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The purported mission. Some genuinely intelligent and caring colleagues.

Cons

It's tough to really put pen to paper. Where do I start? It's interesting that the company notes they take feedback seriously on this site, but if I know this company the way I do the culture hasn't changed. Leadership claims to take feedback openly, but you're either too scared to voice out your concerns in fear of backlash (as based upon prior experiences) or if you are honest, they take no action. It's almost like you're screaming at the top of your lungs only to have those cries fall on to deaf ears. There’s also rampant favoritism. You’ll get far in this company in spite of knowledge or experience if you’re favored by the right people, namely the executive team. Especially the two at the helm. It’s debilitating working every day knowing this fact because you’re often painted into a corner to do things to maintain the status quo even if you know substantively and commercially - it’s not the best decision. Echoing everyone’s points, this company is very sales-driven. Understandably that is to be expected from a start-up. But there are absolutely no boundaries - if a sale needs to happen, the teams will do anything to close the deal without really considering the various impacts across the business. And when the deal’s closed, they leave the client teams to clean up the mess. To clarify, I worked for Pymetrics before the COVID impacts.

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Pymetrics Response
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Thanks for your feedback - we appreciate it, and I'm always happy to meet with former employees to hear directly about your experiences at pymetrics. We're striving to provide multiple vehicles for employees to share feedback -through leadership update emails, town halls, regular surveys, and office hours to name a few - and our leadership team is taking that feedback seriously and actioning it on a regular basis. I'm sorry to hear that you felt that we've played favorites - that must have been frustrating. We're focused on ensuring that our robust performance management process makes it clear to employees how they are performing and what they need to do to advance, and those decisions are based on how employees deliver for clients and colleagues. Our CEO/founder and President are not planning to step down; they and our employees are extremely passionate about serving our clients and fulfilling pymetrics mission to help companies make better and fairer people decisions with behavioral science and ethical AI technology. In the case of our founder, she has dedicated her professional life to that goal. However, they are focused on constantly improving, so thank you for sharing your feedback! We appreciate your contributions to pymetrics and wish you all the best. Jenn Perez Chief People Officer

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