The worst tech culture stereotypes - toxic management, tons of turnover, and no walking the walk - Front End Web Developer BetterUp Employee Review

1.0
Jan 11, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Has good compensation & benefits.

Cons

Leadership behaves as if they're always the exception, and exploits employees to compensate for lack of leadership accountability . "Fast paced" is code for extremely poor resourcing (lots of single points of failure) and leadership that can't seem to align. Will ask step 1 questions at step 10 of the project. Leads to making last minute decisions and forcing individual contributors to scramble and commit long hours (under the guise of "Grit"). Really poor technical literacy within the company, even within simple tools like Slack, and a lack of self-starter culture (folks are unwilling to learn by doing). Cutthroat internal culture - I saw multiple teams completely laid off and restaffed in just 1 year. Turnover rate is crazy, and anyone who stays is for the promise of an IPO. For an HR company, really poor management. HR enables leadership bias. Talks a big game about what the product does for other companies, but doesn't actually take that advice themselves.

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5.0
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Pros

Amazing team Rewarding cross functional work Interesting tasks Learning opportunities Flexible work schedule

Cons

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2.0
Jul 9, 2026
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Pros

Oh how I loved the work of this job, meaning, I LOVED coaching the employees. BU has a great platform as well for scheduling, etc. The work is all virtual, which is great.

Cons

They just don't pay enough. They only pay for the 45 min session you are scheduled for with a client. No time is reimbursed for sending resources after, reschedules, progress notes after session, aka the other required part of the job. Without compensation for admin, a very high hourly contract rate quickly becomes very little, especially when you factor in that you pay all of your own taxes and expenses such as tech/wifi, etc. I simply could not make this job work for me despite loving it because of the low pay. Also, I attended an in person coaching conference in Austin, TX and the leadership had a weird vibe, like, we should be so lucky to be allowed to work for BU.

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