Your direct manager contributes largely to your well-being at work. Think twice.
Pros
People here are nice, and collaborative. The team is tight because we trauma bonded after all the challenges we've been through.
Cons
StashAway has one major problem. Their middle managers suck. And I'm not just talking about incompetency. They talk down to their subordinates and will not hesitate to throw them under the bus to look good to peers their level and c-suite. They also cannot be challenged, people who challenged them have been silently managed out. I am not even talking about my own experience; this runs across a few departments, from berating the employees to micromanaging them. The amount of horror stories I hear from my colleagues, and how some of them left in a way that reflects terribly on the professionalism of the company and upper management You know whats the worst thing? It seems like the C-suite knows, but they don't even care about the working level being mistreated. They lost touch with the working level, and feedback usually falls on deaf ears, or people do not dare to give feedback, fearing their jobs might be on the line. For a company that says culture is their selling point, the culture is not good at all. It has become such a manipulative and psychologically unsafe environment to work in. I am tense every day and worry about whether I will be scolded or not. Even when the managers are in a good mood, it scares me so much. Silent layoffs: Their handling of some of the layoffs due to "performance" is very questionable. It feels like they are firing people due to costs and because they feel threatened by them. When talking to people that the affected employees worked with, they have nothing but good feedback for the said person. Hiring: After laying off people, they hire new messiahs to "change" the game or to "improve" things, but they usually conform to the current management's ways. It is pretty upsetting to see how the culture drastically changed over the years, it was not like that when I first joined. It is NOT the same company as it was a few years back. The culture is NOT empowering, NOT nurturing, and mentally unsafe.
