Very inexperienced and incompetent executive team - Full Stack Developer Spacee Employee Review

2.0
1 Dec 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of cutting edge and innovative technologies to work with. Excellent sales team is keeping the company afloat. In general, management tends to take your suggestions and allow you to take ownership of your work.

Cons

Management competence is terrifying. They fire competent people and keep incompetent people, proposing conspiracy theories about how the person they fired was working another job because they don't "see them" in the office. There is no VPN connection to the office and given the nature of the IoT technology, you are many times, out of necessity, required to come into the office to do your work. It's very disappointing that a technology company cannot figure out how to set up a VPN server. Some could even say it's dangerous that you need to work in the office during a raging pandemic. It's a startup so you never know if you'll get your next round of funding. HR management tells bold face lies to their employees in order to manipulate outcomes that look favorable on themselves. Executive team sets goals based on a wish and a whistle with no attention to data that would support their ideas. Promotes people with no leadership experience or abilities into leadership positions without giving them the training they need to be successful. Hires people that are completely unqualified for the job they were hired to do. Hires qualified people to do one job and asks them to do something completely different once they are onboarded. Executive team tries to get people pumped up on how much money the company is going to make from the "next big deal" yet they give their employees virtually zero equity which actually just makes the hoorah meetings extremely frustrating. Overall as a company they learn and move far too slowly to succeed as a startup without revenue. Management team will lead you to believe they have revenue but "revenue" seems to be a loose term. There is no cash coming in the doors from customers at the time of this writing.

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Spacee Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback about your experience at Spacee. We highly value candid, open, and direct communication throughout the company, which is why your review is so appreciated. Our team takes every review about Spacee into account as we continue to grow and expand the organization. Our most recent internal survey of Employee Net Promotor Score has us with an astronomically high score of 91 and we know from industry benchmarks and the rating system, that it's a very good score that we are proud to represent. While we know that we can't sustain that forever, but we are going to do our best to make Spacee a great place to work for everyone. We are sorry your experience was not great, and we truly wish you the best in your future endeavors. We encourage you to reach out to careers@spacee.com with any additional information about your experience.

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