Horror House! Reviews are fake - Toxic and gaslighting daily! - Product Manager Motive Employee Review

1.0
May 15, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Somewhat ok pay and vacation time.

Cons

The problems start from the CEO on down. Toxic company culture run on fear of losing their job every single day across every single function. Turnover is incredibly high. Senior and mid-senior leaders are hired and then gone in a flash. Senior leadership can't seem to recognize the toll that the constant employee churn takes on morale and workload. Teams are constantly struggling to pick up the slack when employees leave or are let go because there's no plan to backfill. You'll be doing someone else's job – likely something you're not interested in and have no experience doing – a week or two after you've finished onboarding. Teams are short staffed and being tasked with responsibilities way beyond their expertise or job description. They have expectations that people will do three people’s jobs and then get outraged when it isn’t perfect. Folks are stretched thin, ripped apart and treated with disrespect. Hard work is rarely acknowledged. Leadership barks orders and micro-manages. Cross-team leaders are at odds with each other; some disrespectfully in group calls to junior team members and same level. Whiplash in demands from leadership who struggle to define and align what to prioritize. So much flip-flopping. With constantly shifting priorities and changing requests, misalignment across leadership, and being short-staffed, delivery of asks is quickly overlooked and unappreciated. Leadership is quick to desert their reports and blame them for their own lack of management, ability to prioritize and communicate. Look past all the glowing reviews as they are fake. The recruiting team has told me themselves they write the reviews. Look on page 2 and 3 of this company to find out the truth. It has been the same if you look through the reviews for the past several years. Don’t join unless you really need a job. This company will make you feel terrible about yourself.

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Motive Response
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This is not the type of experience we want for any Motive team members. Here, are intent goal is to provide an environment in which team members feel valued and respected. Our managers are regularly required to undergo training on unconscious bias, inclusive leadership, anti-discrimination, and building trust and psychological safety on teams - all with the goal of fostering nothing short of a positive work environment. You have dedicated six service years to Motive and we'd like to learn about the particulars of your experience, as retaining top talent is a high priority. Please reach out to opendoor@gomotive.com to open further dialogue with us - and thank you for your candor.

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Pros

Strong people and culture. Genuinely good colleagues, a collaborative environment, and a place where talented people want to do good work. After many years here, the quality of the people is the thing I'd point to first. Real mission and real product. The work matters — building technology that has a tangible safety impact in the physical world. That gives the work a sense of purpose that's hard to find elsewhere.

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Leadership and organizational clarity could be stronger. As the company has grown, clearer direction, more consistent decision-making, and steadier organizational structure would help people do their best work. Uncertainty. Periods of structural and strategic change can create a sense of instability that's tiring over time, even for people who are otherwise very committed to the company.

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