Foursquare Reviews

I would urge any job seeker to seriously reconsider accepting a job here. There is extremely high turnover with many employees being terminated after less than a year with little justification or warning. I saw around a hundred good people move over from stable careers with excellent credentials, only to be fired because they were supposedly “under performers”. Then they have to try to explain why they were fired after 3 months to try to get their next job. CEO David Shim is impossible to work with and is verbally abusive and bullying. This trickles down through the organization and creates an environment of constant fear. If he forms a poor opinion of you, for any reason, you are gone. Even the highest performers feel unsure if they will be fired every day. The positive reviews here are from HR and senior management....of themselves.

Basically, there are too many leaders with blinders on and arrogance. They are busy micromanaging instead of appropriately macromanaging and retaining people at the company. -Very political. -Profitability > everything. CEO does not care about you. You were a variable plugged into a profitability calculator. -Layoffs masked in a merger/acquisition and then even more layoffs. Leadership believed they were smarter than the rest of the tech industry because the only "official" COVID layoff Foursquare had was smaller than other companies. There were two layoffs no matter what they said happened. They're lying to themselves. They told employees there will be no more "planned" layoffs. Neither of those layoffs were planned either. If they were, they've been exploiting people for three to four months until they gave them the axe. -Apparently, layoffs are being branded as an opportunity to expand your role. No additional compensation provided. -Leadership has been making very poor short-term decisions due to COVID. Complete inability to think long-term. They couldn't even commit to an office vs remote situation beyond a few weeks. CEO believed we have to get back into the office ASAP... at a tech company. -Leadership is out of touch, refuses to admit mistakes, and does not answer questions with straightforward answers. -Extreme micromanagement from an untrusting exec and leadership team. -Diversity is an issue. Many people of color and women exited or laid off. Acted like having a town hall on diversity fixed our issues. One meeting and one diversity hire at the leadership level (which still hasn't happened) aren't going to fix this. -Bloated leadership team. One example: Foursquare has the original founder, Placed CEO (now Foursquare CEO), and Factual CEO. All 3 are different individuals with their own styles and obvious conflicting values and goals. -Absolute no career progression. Foursquare is a stepping stone to a better company with no promotion processes in place to grow. HR has been atrocious since the churn in that department. CEO would prefer you leave/get laid off instead of paying you more. -Work didn't stop - messages, emails, etc. outside of normal working hours. If you didn't answer, micromanagement ramped up.