Elevate reviews

Unprofessional managers Toxic meetings where other department heads/people are spoken about Seniority and experience does not play a part most times Unequal pay for same positions Unprepared meetings and trainings by managers People promoted to managers/positions without any experience but simply based on “who you know” People let go without no recourse or explanation- no offering of stepping into other roles needing filled Constant behind the back moves for other internal positions offered. Roles and Responsibilities not or ever clearly defined No stability of work due to unnecessary hiring of new positions in the BU. Inappropriate display of managers talking down to one another-other and co-workers or the contractors under them Conflict of interests between family members and respective hiring of job titles/promotions.

The structure supporting the software development cycles causes team leaders to be incredibly inflexible. Managers seemed adverse to making any changes as they were afraid about how this would impact their reports. This struck me as a great example of Goodhart’s Law – metrics becoming targets and ceasing to be good metrics. The software teams use an overly complex, strict, and inflexible "agile" development process. Upper management does not understand some of their own products. Marketing uses buzzwords for technologies they don’t actually have (smoke and mirrors) and management does not seem willing to make the investment required to actually implement these technologies. The company felt directionless. There was a strange and pervasive communication culture. My colleagues were unwilling to write substantive messages in chat, rendering MS Teams an absolutely useless tool. Now that I work for a real tech company, I look back in absolute shock of how things were run at Elevate.