Fuse (Canada) Reviews

Startup pace with ambiguity in processes and expectations; leadership is young but learning

You are likely to be fired within 1-6 months due to poor management. You'll be told great things about the company and the industry that will get you hyped. You'll see the backgrounds of other people who (used to) work there that look really great. You'll be offered a salary below market rate but you'll take it for the "mission"...and even though things might seem a bit off at first, you'll think, "this is a startup so it's ok if minimum basic standards of professionalism don't exist." Your work scope will change weekly if not daily. You'll be asked to do things you have no experience in or no desire to do, but you'll try anyway because you'll be told "it's a startup," as if that explains everything. Nobody will tell you you're not meeting expectations or how you could do better until all of a sudden the CEO, a mercurial person with no other professional experience outside Fuse, will suddenly become extra moody. That's your first clue. Then you'll get a zoom call in which you'll be told "It's not working out," and you'll be fired. This has happened to a majority of people who were hired in the past year. Some of them had moved cross country and signed leases. And these are all highly-skilled A players, not the type of people that a healthy organization would readily let go. There's no performance improvement conversation. There's only the ever-changing demands of an unseasoned executive and no actual adult oversight of the company. Other fun facts: leadership is proudly anti-woke and proudly anti-work/life balance. Good luck.