Grove Collaborative Reviews

Probably a lot of people want to work here because its mission to do good for the earth and people. That is true. But when it comes to its own people, the staff and employee, their so-called people-first is just fooling people to commit working here. The leadership makes volatile decisions in letting go of people they don't like, some even in senior positions such as lead product managers, head of talent acquisition, head of engineering management, and etc. As an employee at the time, I literally saw these people disappearing and found out about it by seeing their Slack being deactivated. It was a horrifying experience and definitely gave a feeling that they don't care about you. I felt replaceable the whole time I was there. Getting a promotion was so difficult. I was doing the next level job for a while but still getting no promotion or salary raise. My manager simply doesn't understand my competence and contribution, which was the reason I left the company. About diversity. Even though they promote female leadership, there is no women in the company board. And I have to mention that we acquired two companies that have female CEOs, one left the company shortly, and other one not involved in the core business at all. There is a new General legal counsel for the company, who as a black woman, only beats around the bushes and gives generic answers when it comes to sensitive questions about gender diversity in leadership, payment equality between genders, and 401k matching (right...no 401k matching folks). This lady for me is the essence of the bureaucratic face-level promise that they give to the employees. The financing is a mess as well. Their mindset of marketing is still at when the company was first founded. The old way of marketing burnt so much cash and didn't really acquire enough customers for its worth. They had to do a big layoff of some of the people they think are "dispensable" to counter their overspend. I do not recommend working there.