How to ruin a company 101 - Anonymous employee Monks Employee Review

1.0
Sep 24, 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Coworkers are the only bright spot. They are some of the smartest, kindest, and most resourceful professionals I have ever met. You will bond with amazing peers while desperately trying to survive the dysfunction.

Cons

Leadership is a toxic mix of ego, fear, greed, and incompetence. Decisions are made for optics, not results. Acquisitions happen with no plan to integrate. All hands meetings are a joke and happen maybe three times a year — decks full of AI generated slides, buzzwords, and dodged questions while employees openly beg for honesty. Layoffs are handled with zero transparency or empathy and the calls are run by HR strangers while leadership hides in silence. The company says one thing to the market about a single offering, single P&L, claiming to foster creativity, culture, and innovation, and yet internally it couldn’t be more different. Politics and nepotism beat merit every time. Due to all 30+ acquisitions and zero pay equity banding, salaries are wildly inequitable and leadership ignores the scale of the inequity. HR protects leadership, not employees. Morale is destroyed, likely beyond repair. Financially the business is tanking — just look at the stock chart from the last five years and you will know everything you need to know. Yet somehow the company finds probably well over a million dollars to send executives and leaderships favorites to Cannes while quietly laying off hundreds of people who actually keep the lights on. It is a fear-driven, status-obsessed circus where politics and busy work replaces impact and real change. Leaders who barely have the skills to manage a team of 2, hold power over entire divisions. The anxiety of anticipating a layoff never stops.

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Good benefits and great coworkers Lots of room to Frow

Cons

Hard work life balance Sometimes unorganized

3.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

The team members who are in the weeds

Cons

* Low pay and lack of career progression. Last year I had my first raise in years but it was a VERY small increase that hasn't improved my quality of life unfortunately. This year they pushed the merit increase by half a year. There isn't a doubt among all of colleagues that this is an intentional move to get more folks to quit / save money. * High employee turnover. * Multiple waves of layoffs and departures since 2024. Lack of communication and planning around layoffs leads to us having to figure out solutions on the fly and it honestly does not seem like that leadership cares about how these layoffs are affecting the CURRENT business. * Rotating door of Execs who have no idea what's going on in the ground. We're just treated like numbers on a spreadsheet.

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