A Case Study on Bad Leadership Decisions - Senior Engineer OnShift Employee Review

1.0
Jun 26, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Nice health care plan, no premiums and decent company HSA contributions - Great downtown location if you can deal with the parking

Cons

OnShift was an amazing place a few years ago. It was a fun place to work filled with passionate people. Since then, OnShift released multiple rushed products that led to significant tech debt and a very chaotic work environment. The answer seemingly was to lay off half their IT staff and pivot to a new tech stack. These days the passion doesn’t exist and it’s easy to see why. The people who built the software and made OnShift what it was were shut out by a few outside leadership hires. Major decisions were made without consulting the very people who cared and poured all their energy into making the product what it was. If you decided to respectfully voice your dissent, you were quickly excluded from anything of importance. All of this went on, among many other things, under the original leadership who claimed to put employees first. They completely checked out of the engaging and caring attitude that was there when I started. Among other cons: - No 401k matching - little to no career growth or progression opportunities - small tables for desk with no privacy and little space

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