Small but it feels very corporate - Senior Software Engineer Trakstar Employee Review

I was part of Reviewsnap when the companies merged. The Trakstar leadership took over and it was really brutal. Julie was passive aggressive, very indirect (although she swore quite the opposite), and her mottos of "everyone is special and capable" really only applied to her. If she doesn't directly contribute to a solution she won't back it or let it pass and if you give feedback she doesn't like she WILL consider firing you. My experience with Reviewsnap up until that point had been one of empowerment, transparency, scrappiness, and I loved it. Trakstar couldn't be further from that. On top of that remote work was a no-go, hours in the office were strictly enforced, and no social media in the office. We were unceremoniously laid-off weeks before a launch of a new app. The severance was okay and one of our devs was re-hired but it was clearly more of a mass-firing than a cut-back since they rehired pretty promptly.