FiveFour Group Reviews

- You're going to have to cancel your Netflix subscription because the company culture will be all the drama you need. "I accept responsibility for this!" - said no one ever at Five Four - Remember those obnoxious guys from class? You'll be thinking, "how did I end up on this Access Hollywood bus?" - Vacation hours don't start accruing until you work 6 months. Don't expect to get your vacation approved though since everyone's stretched really thin and you don't wanna let the team down, right? - High turnover rate means no one knows what they're doing - Cramped workspace so always be ready for an impromptu game of Tetris whenever the Fire Department comes around - CEOs/investors will often circumvent established workflow to give you new directives. Expect to hear "So I know it's launching tomorrow, but [CEO/investor] wants this instead" on a regular basis - You have to find out everything through gossip. I have literally seen coworkers not come in to work one morning and then their replacement sits down at their seat with no explanation. At least there were snacks in the kitchen to feed the huge elephant in the room

+ No true direction. Trying to do WAY too many things at once while they still haven't come close to perfecting the original subscription business. + Most of the highest level executives who are there now have little or no relevant experience prior to their current roles. + No one really owns their area/department. The C-level execs make all the decisions and drive everything. (all the way down to decisions on what angle a models foot should be at in a completely inconsequential blog image). And this applies to all levels of the business. They're in your stuff all day whether you're a designer or a customer service rep or a VP or the janitor. + As result of the points above. There is almost no room for growth and no one to learn from. + Turnover is really high. + No one who has ever worked at a decent company(s) prior to Five Four has lasted longer than 2 years (this is actually a fact), with many blue chippers leaving in 6 months or less. + People scream at each other all day (often screaming sexist, racist and/or homophobic jokes/comments) - especially among the exec team and other long-tenured employees - definitely a male dominated, locker room vibe. + HR is ineffective (example: complaints about people making comments described above haven't changed anything. It still happens. Daily. And the worst culprits still work there after several "warnings".) + Technology is very poor. No real interest in building a world class engineering team and truly killer website. + Accounting practices are shady, at best. + Communication between departments is nonexistent. + Feedback is rarely excepted and never acted upon. Leadership doesn't like when others give suggestions on how to make the business or product or culture better. + We only heard the founders say "thank you" one time out of the hundreds of times they gave updates in meetings, town halls, email threads, etc.. + The clothes are much lower quality then they'll admit - tissue-thin material, second-rate production, and almost always with fit issues. + Horrible office space (not modern. cramped and kinda gross, zero spaces to hold meetings). + Even worse location (worried about being mugged every time you walk down the street at night to the parking lot).