I would give NEGATIVE stars if I could - Anonymous employee Side Employee Review

1.0
25 Oct 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Flexibility to work remotely. -There were some smart, experienced team members but the majority of them quit the company. -Everyone gets a new MacBook and Patagonia sweater during onboarding. -The industrial office space in SoMa has air conditioning.

Cons

It's hard to distill all that I have witnessed within this organization. Never in my life have I seen so much toxicity mixed with arrogant incompetence and lack of governance. Senior leadership abuses power by bullying, harassing, or threatening those whom they do not like on a daily and weekly basis. Senior leadership also openly trash talks employees who have left the organization, both internally and externally (to clients). There is no real technology product. Employees are left to clean up the mess and cobble together something that resembles a product or service that was over-promised during the sales process. This could be because the engineering staff lack experience as recent bootcamp graduates. There is zero accountability and the engineering staff has no respect for the customer. If you are to work at this company, then know that you are not working at a technology company and very little of what you will do would be considered transferrable to other roles or industries. Choose wisely.

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Side Response
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Thanks for your feedback, and it’s great to hear that you appreciated the flexibility to work remote, our smart team members. Managing a high-growth company doesn’t come without its challenges, including building and staffing the organization with the right team members. We are fortunate to be able to say that our company is powered by amazingly smart and caring people with long term tenures. We do take your feedback, and we are constantly looking to improve. We are very much an engineering company that has developed highly proprietary software that is backed by some of the most sophisticated institutional tech funds in the world. We would appreciate hearing more about your concerns, so we can continue to improve things. Please feel free to reach out to me directly. Thanks again for your feedback.

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