Keela Reviews

The burden of the overall success of the business will be placed on your shoulders. There is an immense culture of blame and an overall lack of accountability among leadership for their business decisions, which the employees are forced to adapt to. To compensate, they will micromanage your daily work and insert themselves into your meetings. They'll scrutinize your calendar and accuse you of time theft if they think you're not working hard enough (or as they say "consistently going above and beyond the job title" without compensation). If you put up any boundaries or advocate for work-life balance, you'll slowly be ostracized. You are expected to be available 24/7 and every task is treated as urgent, even when it's not. If you don't agree with all of the values or direction of the business, you are encouraged to leave. While agility is to be expected at a tech startup, prepare to pour all your effort into a project that quickly gets scrapped because leadership decided to pursue it on a whim without proper research and consultation. Your opinion and insight which stems from your daily work and experience will be routinely dismissed. While the people are great, the culture has taken a nosedive. So many of the people who made the culture great left on their own accord or were let go from the company. Now, every meeting or interaction you have with a coworker is laced with an unspoken tension. This has created a culture of mistrust and secrecy, which makes the day-to-day unbearable. All of this has resulted in a toxic and psychologically unsafe work environment.

When it comes down to it, the people running the show are the CEO and two others. Not a single one of them is equipped to run a company. All three are green, immature and have zero clue about how to steer this ship. Lately, the CEO's been MIA in the day-to-day, leaving two rookies to run the biggest departments. While they act confident, deep down, they're about as ready for these senior roles as a teenager getting their first job. They've never managed teams, dealt with people issues, or seen the inside of another workplace to gather some wisdom. Plus, they're always ready to pick a fight and brush off any good ideas. It's a real shame because Keela used to be something special. If this circus keeps going, we're looking at a crash and burn situation real soon.