If you're on the spectrum and enjoy being treated/spoken to like a child, this is your place! - Quality Assurance Ultranauts Employee Review

2.0
14 July 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexibility, most of the time due to them continually hiring even when they don't have enough work for the people they've already employed.

Cons

If you are on the spectrum and they are aware of this, prepare for your management team to treat you like a child....If you have concerns, be prepared for them to tell you they will get back to you and then ignore you hoping it'll just pass. In addition, highly abusive gaslighting is a norm anytime you actually want to work collaboratively on solving any issues you have.

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Ultranauts Response
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Thank you for your feedback. As an organization that’s striving to create a workplace where everyone can thrive, we have failed you. Even a single team member feeling that they’re not being heard or taken seriously because of who they are is not OK, especially in a company where we have so many different identities. For people who are not familiar with Ultranauts, that means a company where we have autistic colleagues at all levels, including on the leadership team, where three quarters of us are neurodivergent, where we have more females than males, where a fifth of our managers are Black, and a third of us identify as LGBTQ+. In terms of working with outside partners, we do believe that sometimes it’s important to bring in external expertise, like our engagement with a neurodivergent-led non profit to conduct our psychological safety survey and host follow on discussions to identify opportunities for improvement. Although this year’s psychological safety survey showed that 90% of team members felt safe to openly identify as neurodivergent, and 90% of team members felt more safe at Ultranauts that at any prior workplace (4% felt safety at Ultranauts was average, and 6% felt less safe at Ultranauts than at a previous employer), 90% simply isn’t good enough. We want everyone to have a work environment where they feel safe to be who they are and experience a sense of accomplishment with their teams, and are actively seeking ways to help those who aren’t in that 90% feel comfortable enough to voice their concerns and to address those concerns as best we can while operating within the constraints that come with being a company. By sharing the results of the psychological surveys with all staff and the Board, we hope to create transparency and accountability to continuously improve. By inviting all staff to participate in co-creating solutions (in the case of psychological safety, the process will be led by an independent third party, and allow for anonymous and asynchronous participation), we hope to identify the most impactful actions to implement.

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Pros

* Friendly co-workers and management. * Client work is usually interesting, and most clients are easy to work with. * Invested in employee psychological safety and has innovated tools to track and resolve issues affect psychological safety. Specifically, they present themselves as being genuinely interested in hiring neurodivergent people.

Cons

* Has been struggling financially and to retain clients for the past 2.5 years, leading to them having hemorrhaged a sizable portion of their staff in that period through many rounds of layoffs. * Seems more interested in hiring "expert partners" and outside skilled people from elsewhere in the industry as consultants than developing and training internal talent. * Some clients and client projects are duds, and unpleasant to work on, due to both the nature of the work, client expectations, and personalities of client contacts, and Engagement/Quality Managers on projects aren't always effective at sufficiently advocating for Ultranauts team members when issues come up. * Company/senior management is heavily interested in getting into federal contracts and working with the (current) federal government of the United States, despite all the current instability and hostility towards autism and neurodivergence associated with the current administration.

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