Aescape reviews

The company has gradually shifted toward being less remote-worker-friendly than they once were, which I think is a shame. The management-to-contributor ratio is probably a bit too high, resulting in a bit too much time dedicated to planning and process rather than just building what needs to be built (though I think they're making progress on improving that). Strategic budget-tightening has resulted in a couple of rounds of layoffs. Given that I was affected by one of those, my biased opinion is that some poor choices were made there. But I did think we'd been growing too fast the previous year, so some staffing cuts were not surprising or unwarranted.

Leadership is running it into the ground as fast as possible So much middle management, everyone is a manager, only like 20 out of 200 people at the company do all the real output Some of the c suite wants to bring in all their friends as contractors who just linger on payroll and know one knows what they do or manages them The decision making always feels like opposite day. They will be done before 2026 and sold for pennies They don't have the money to pay employees or their factory and still keep hiring unnecessary roles