Toxic and favoritism....... - Anonymous Employee Stratolaunch Employee Review

2.0
28 June 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay, great hours, some of the best people I have ever worked with. If you are thinking about working there, think twice and make sure you don't stay longer then 2 years.

Cons

Everyone is having a hard time right now. I was passed over more times than I could count for the hard work I put in. Multiple times I would also get back handed comments from people who held Manager titles all to the way to Directors. As the company has grown over the years, I watched a lot of good people come and go. Some of them didn't deserve to be laid off. In the beginning everyone was very close, but as the company grew I started to notice that people who were in Manager to Director level positions started to become less and less concerned about the help staff and our mental health. Favoritism began to show to itself as more people got hired from Scaled Composites. People who were there before new hires are getting pushed out because of whatever bond was made at the previous employer. This made me feel that I couldn't talk to anyone about my problems that I was having. I felt abandoned because of the favoritism. I even had a Director put his hands on me. People's mental health was not a concern. Going as far as finding reasons to lay people off instead of helping them with their problems, be those problems be at home or at work. Instead of coming to you and asking you what's wrong and how they can help they would just lay you off. You could open up to someone and tell them how much of a hard of a time you are having with everything and that could be a reason for HR to "Investigate." Which all that ever meant was that they wanted to ask around about you and get all the info they could to get you fired. If you aren't part of the in crowed then you will get fired. Seriously try not to stay there for longer than 2 years. A lot of shady behind the curtain kind of stuff would happen all the time. Very toxic work environment.

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