Morning Consult Reviews

2023 was considered a year where objectives mattered, and financial goals had to be met. Company wide status updates started off on a weekly, then bi-weekly, then monthly basis. Pay was frozen, promotions canceled, and stock options became worthless. A few rounds of layoff later, and eventually management went dark in September only to wake back up in January. At that point 1/2 of engineering was let go, and an announcement was made that the company would pivot to AI (without engineers). If the whole company is based on getting real human feedback, why would you pollute that signal with AI hallucinations? The system is broken and management is simply attaching buzzwords wherever possible. Run away, as the company is in headcount freefall, and if you get brought on, most likely you'll be part of the next layoff.

Since starting with the company ~2 yrs ago it has felt like early promise has been squandered. Leadership does not understand that employee wellbeing and advancement is a key component to growth. In the face of potential economic downturn, nearly half of the data operations division - the division directly responsible for generating the custom research they sell - was liquidated. When downturn didn't materialize, those of us left behind dealt with monthly crunch and continual personnel churn. Despite two years of long hours and high-value work, many employees have seen zero movement on compensation during record inflation. Review cycles are a moving target. In two years no two review cycles have been the same, and when promotions fail to materialize the only substantive feedback is "employees need to go above and beyond". Constant management shakeups and a remote environment means that supervisors often have little insight on the work and improvement of their direct reports. Unsurprisingly, this has led to mass departure and increased the load on remaining employees.