Faraday Reviews

- Noncompetitive, below average pay - you can earn more elsewhere - Manager/managers (one was fired; can’t say any of us actually shed a tear for that decision), no name dropping, need serious management training to be held at the standards that employees are -> Micromanaging -> Talking down and demotivating employees is poisonous -> No work/life balance whatsoever -> “Drink the kool-aid or get out” mentality - Deadlines are set without any responsible consultation and time estimation with the team. Therefore, expectations and deadlines are unrealistic - No time is given to learn and grow skills for newly added responsibilities to do your job despite not having any education or experience with those responsibilities -> Compensation is not adjusted for adding more responsibilities - Use of a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) document to hide a textbook example of constructive dismissal -> Use employees as an example for others to fall in line -> Attempt to add an unrealistic workload to get an employee to quit to disqualify them from receiving unemployment benefits. -> Have no intention to help the employee grow, they are just attempting to get more work out of the employee and burn them out before their inevitable job search.

The marketing team was circus run by deranged micromanagers, Perry McDermott and Danielle Rand. The used a PIP document on one of the most hardworking employees on their team because he wasn't working the same 60+ hour weeks they were. They introduced the PIP so they could fire him and instead use a marketing agency to their web development work. (However, they didn't save any of his documentation so they were never able to make web development changes and fixes and had to make a new website AGAIN.) Perry's bad decisions and lack of experience was a recipe for disaster — unrealistic deadline, ever-changing initiatives, "everything is a priority" mentality. The only thing he knows are buzzwords so people think he's competent in his job. Thankfully, that coworker had started job searching when the PIP was introduced and found a replacement job shortly before they fire him.