Valuetainment Reviews

From the outside, I was excited for the opportunity to work at Valuetainment as Tech Lead of the Minnect app. But once inside, you quickly learn about all their exploitative tendencies. In the 3-month I was there, several key employees quit or got fired. One pattern I noticed is that they hire people a few months before their big conferences (like The Vault Conference), expect you to work day and night (and weekends) to deliver a large amount of work, and then shortly after you're terminated. Don't fall for this if you rely on your job to support a family. 1. They used fear-based tactics to try and motivate you. e.g. they will use language such as "You know if you don't deliver, you'll be fired." 2. They will also promise equity, but will never actually amend the contract. 3. Micro-managing is the norm in this place. 4. You'll be messaged directly outside of working hours with the expectation that you will work on something immediately. 5. You'll be told to do things there way rather than have an open discussion with you to find the best path. 6. They constantly thinks tasks were done that weren't even part of the sprint planning discussions because of lack of process, tools, and trust in their team. And frankly, to many different things going on such as PatDavid Consulting, Podcast, Minnect, Valuetainment, Book a guest through Minnect, merchandise sales, Energy drink sales, etc, etc. Company lacks clear focus & direction. 7. They hold your first week's pay till after you leave the company. 8. They don't give any severance pay if you're separated without reason. 9. You only get 5-days of health insurance after being separated without reason. 10. You can't take onions for lunch because Pat the CEO doesn't like the smell. 11. They get furious if you're late or take longer than an hour while at lunch. 12. They don't like when you take sick days off. You can tell by there passive aggressive tone. 13. They do not like employees to do any activities like chess or others. 14. Several meaningless weekly checkpoints without agendas. 15. Ultimately the CEO does nothing to improve the culture, and rather is part of the problem. In closing, this has been the worst experience I've had with a management team and company culture in my decade-long professional career as a software engineer and technical lead.

An unhealthy culture created by the CEO himself. People are used as much as possible for personal gain in the culture. Everybody is out for themselves, and there is no concept of teamwork