A terrible culture, led by the top - Anonymous employee Grow.com Employee Review

1.0
Jul 14, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you want a simple 9-5, here it is. You could work here for a while and work on side projects/businesses.

Cons

1. If you're outside the circle of friends running this place, they have very short-term memories when it comes to your accomplishments. I've heard them say awful things about their employees when they think they're out of earshot of others (mainly the VPs on the revenue side of the business). 2. Everything is "form over function". Examples: - the product looks pretty, but is completely bug-ridden and crashes constantly - most of the integrations the sales team sells customers on are not functional - the support team has to build everything for new clients because the interface is awful - "seen at work" is more important than "got work done". literally been told this by a manager 3. Leadership is stingy with equity (in the best case scenario of a $1B Grow IPO, 1000 shares would be worth ~$10,000 given current number of outstanding shares. That's unrealistic and several years away at best). 4. Also stingy with perks (e.g. "stocked kitchen" runs dry by Thursday) 5. And is not very competitive on pay and benefits. 6. Too much LDS church influence (occasionally prayers and "spiritual thoughts" happen in company meetings!!) 7. No women in leadership (or really any diversity). 8. Multiple cases of true nepotism (multiple cases of upper management with relatives working under them).

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Pros

Good, smart humans working on some fun problems.

Cons

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2.0
Oct 18, 2019
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Pros

They have some great people working for the company. It was good to learn from them and build my network. The industry is a cool and exciting one to be in. Learning BI and data has been a valuable skill for me to grow my career.

Cons

I don't see Grow succeeding and they have been going down for a few years now. They make quick and drastic pivots to the product, marketing, and overall business model without giving time to see if the changes will actually work. That was extremely frustrating to deal with when I worked for them. They don't put enough money into the product to make it stable or add key features to make it competitive in the market. The product is a buggy mess and so frustrating to use. One of the reasons I left was because I was tired of using Grow and dealing with all the bugs it has constantly. It's also missing key features that even basic BI tools have. It's overpriced and difficult to sell and even more difficult to keep customers. I had a lot of hope for Grow but I'm just not seeing it succeeding anymore. They focus too much on the financials instead of making strategic business decisions. That is due to an Accountant being the right hand of the CEO. Unfortunately, I see more layoffs coming soon. Hopefully, the CEO isn't on vacation in Mexico this time like he was when they laid off most of the sales team.

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