Fake leadership and product that no longer sells - Software Engineer Welcome (PR) Employee Review

1.0
8 June 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Mostly awesome coworkers Flexible schedule and remote work Good offsite all hands in Vegas

Cons

I feel that I was conned by leadership into joining this company. They talk a lot about diversity and inclusion and "belonging", but the truth of the matter is that it is badly run by three very "bro-ey" founders and they care very little about actual diversity. A previous review mentioned that engineering is run by a child that lets his baby brother do whatever he wants, and this is not far from the truth. The baby brother has brought down the application multiple times with little consequence but when others make much smaller mistakes his brother the CTO would go on a blame and shame tirade on Slack. The CTO also hired his computer science teacher who seems to be a somewhat unstable person who goes on tirades from time to time that makes others very uncomfortable. They also have an oldest brother who is also one of the founders and is just a very caustic and sexist person all around. In general this company is a cesspool of nepotism, and if you are not in the inner circle then you are basically screwed because whatever non-existent performance standards there are will be applied unevenly to you. The product is a video conferencing/events SaaS platform that received a lot of hype during the pandemic, but now sales are clearly dwindling to dangerously low levels. When you add the inability for the leaders to manage properly you just have a recipe for disaster. Pay is way below average so there is really no good reason to join this sinking ship.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
6 Dec 2022
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Pros

Welcome is selling a very sleek webinar platform that is great for companies who want to highlight their branding and make those virtual events feel like they have a high production value without needing a seasoned event coordinator. We had a company retreat where it was great to meet everyone in person. Everyone was super nice and easy to get along with and will definitely miss those folks.

Cons

No opportunities for growth. Was promised a clear path for professional development but when sales leadership is constantly rescheduling and canceling trainings, it makes it difficult to grow. Even when the whole team was struggling and asked us what we needed from them and told them exactly what we needed to be better in the roles only to be told they were working on too many other projects and we were on our own. No clue what these other projects that were being worked on consisted of because they were never mentioned to the team. There would be weeks at a time when it felt like we never heard from any of the sales managers. Even when pivoting to a completely different ICP and starting from scratch, the leaders were nowhere to be found and we were left to figure it out on our own.

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