Good people but leadership is lacking and takes no responsibility for their actions - Anonymous employee Soul Machines Employee Review

3.0
16 Feb 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people working there are all very smart and talented, willing to help others. Flexible working, remote wfh Projects are interesting Work-life balance is good

Cons

Compensation is not competitive, below market rate No transparency in the communication from leadership to rest of the staff Multiple layoffs (one before Christmas was terrible timing) Unclear priorities at times - sometimes projects that teams spent time on would just be scrapped. Other times, teams would have multiple "highest priorities", being pulled in all directions with expectations that everything needed to be delivered according to schedule. Executives did not really take accountability for the layoffs which happened apparently because of the market and recession. Please own up and take responsibility and do not blame everything on "things out of our control".

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Soul Machines Response
2y
Thanks for the review. Some of this is factually incorrect re pay cuts / bonus but not really the place to go into it. We are always fully transparent with staff about where we are and whats happening but sometimes things change quickly and decisions need to be made. December was not ideal, I agree. I appreciate your comments and as always we will strive to improve

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Cons

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Soul Machines Response
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2.0
18 Nov 2025
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Pros

The product had potential in many different use cases and the company had able people to fulfill it's potential...

Cons

... but unfocused priorities and competing viewpoints separated more than unified the structure of the company thereby lessening the products potential.

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