Sinking Ship with Empty Promises - Engineer Headspace Employee Review

1.0
Mar 28, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

•Good catered food •Strong developers and PMs •Nice office

Cons

•New VPs and C-Levels coming in and out the door. Strongest voices enter into the room with no sound reasoning, just with the "loudest voice in the room" syndrome •Due to the previous point, the company is on a spiraling down trajectory, with continual cyclical periods where we work to achieve something that failed miserably 1.5 years ago •Certain leaders are emotionally abusive, creating a work environment that feels truly unsafe •User churn continues to grow as users realize there is little to no value in the app, and we have already lost most of our interested base of users to other competitors such as Insight Timer and Calm •Good work isn't appreciated, instead there is strong nepotism and favoritism towards the select few in the room •Sexism as you move towards VP and C-Level •Leaders expect contributors to churn out work until leading to complete burn-out

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Headspace Response
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I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts, and I’m sorry you don’t feel supported by management. Your description of the work environment sounds opposite from the workplace we are striving to create. We want every member of the team to feel like their work and their perspectives are valued. We won’t always get it perfect as we grow our team and encounter some growing pains, but regardless of the changes, we want you to feel empowered to speak up. We’ll now be asking for feedback on a regular basis across the company to see where our strengths and weaknesses lie, and we intend to do our best to act on that feedback to improve the workplace for everyone – in a way that does not negatively impact anyone who speaks up. If you’d like to have a conversation to expand on your experience (this can be entirely confidential), please reach out to me directly. We take this very seriously and want to do everything we can to ensure a fulfilling, supportive work experience for the whole team. Thank you, Caroline Escalante VP of People Operations

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