Overtime Reviews

I'll start with the most obvious: During a time of international crisis (the Covid outbreak), Overtime chose to lay off 30 employees via a generic mass email, with no warning and no severance. They then had the audacity to ask us to sign a confidentiality agreement in return for one month's COBRA coverage. That's right: in the midst of a global pandemic, the management made the decision to hold our health insurance hostage in exchange for our silence. I was disinclined to acquiesce to their request. The less obvious: Despite what management may claim to the contrary, Overtime is very much a boys club with some serious ableist, sexist undercurrents. Statements were made by the CEO implying that taking sick time was a weakness, and the only thing necessary for success was *working harder*. Furthermore, I worked under a (male) manager who not only consistently made me feel inferior, but who also frequently took credit for my work. It's also interesting to note that post-layoffs, the tech & design team consists exclusively of men. The takeaway: As a woman, this was an incredibly negative, unsupportive, and damaging environment to work in; as a woman with a disability, it was even worse.