Fun startup that went rapidly down hill after a series of terrible leadership hires - Senior Software Engineer Travelnest Employee Review

1.0
18 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing customer service, engineering and sales teams.

Cons

Management range from utterly inert to outright bullies. This bullying cost us some of our best engineers. Engineers where aggressively interrogated for a week when it was discovered they where discussing their salaries with each other. There is a worrying number of staff who just "disappear". The company values are only applied in one direction, woe betide anyone being "Fearlessly Honest" to their superiors. The engineering experience at TravelNest went from having smart people building smart solutions to the companies problems to: engineers being told to build the latest knee-jerk solution of a "data optimistic" and constantly flapping leadership team.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

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