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Universal Hydrogen Reviews

3.2

50% would recommend to a friend

(20 total reviews)

34% positive business outlook

Universal Hydrogen has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 20 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Universal Hydrogen employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace and defence industry (3.6 stars).

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20 reviews
1.0
21 May 2023

Poor leadership is hindering company’s success

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The mission and work are interesting and the team at the working level is talented and fun to be around.

Cons

Management team lacks basic leadership and communication skills. They treat others condescendingly. Culture is dead and corporate politics have taken over. Company has been slow to raise money and recently had layoffs as a result. People who had been with the company since day one were let go via email and offered poor exit packages. Many employees are now disillusioned. Strategy and org structure change frequently without any thought. For example, over the last year: program team structure was introduced then reverted, two programs were shut down, former head of HR was promoted to manage support teams and was then demoted then later laid off, former COO recruited operations team who were then pushed out, current COO assembled new team and then many were laid off, recruiter was promoted to management with no experience, and lines of reporting change constantly. CEO only wants yes men and does not accept advice (he will force employees to do things his way and blame them when it goes wrong). He is not actively managing the company at the moment and is detached from the reality of how the company and employees are doing. CTO spends his time dissing people and companies on social media and yelling at or about other parts of the org. GC makes bold claims and proposals that lack any merit. On top of this, management does not work well with each other which leads to siloed teams. Employees only find out about major updates from talking with each other and piecing things together. Other cofounders have wisely departed from the company. Unprofessional and unserious management.

1.0
20 May 2023

Great cause with the worst leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A great cause, a big, yet exciting challenge to positively alter the future of aviation, wonderful and talented people to work with (non C suite leadership).

Cons

Leadership: Rotten, political (and definitely bias), zero empathy, zero human interaction skills, lost, spend more time on LinkedIn making fun of others and laughing at projects than making their idea work, zero leadership skills (CEO, Co founders, CTO, legal council specifically) HR: Doesn't exist, well does exist, but only if you disagree with their politics. Unlimited days off: Sure, try and take a day off without getting on calls Endless meetings: There is no time to actually work, you spend your day convincing leadership individually because they don't even talk internally, yet they have a ton of meetings and offsites

1.0
28 June 2023

A damn shame.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A team of brilliant engineers and staff (less the c-suite and “leadership” team). People who truly care about about the impact their work makes on the world.

Cons

The CEO is the dark triad disguised as performative altruism. A wolf in sheep’s clothes. He lacks the empathy, kindness, and compassion that all great leaders share. Don’t be fooled by the seemingly grand mission to decarbonize aviation. The mission is only as grand as the headlines he wants to be written about him. He doesn’t care about the planet, let alone the people, anyway. Let the other recent reviews corroborate that. He’s created a venture-bank-rolled schoolyard playground to bully his peers and staff. An emotionally stunted child in adult’s clothes. Worse is, the more money he raises, and the more news articles written about him, the more vile he gets. Neither humble nor grateful to those who contributed to the company’s and his success, the CEO grows more power hungry and acts awful to those around him. Like the archetype of every movie villain. He’s that guy. We hate that guy. Do not trust that guy. And for the love of god, stop giving money to that guy. The only things written about him from now on should be about how he fumbled a beautiful opportunity to change the world because his blinding pride consumed him. A tale as old as time. Like the great Maya Angelou once said, “when people show you who they are, believe them.”

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