Surprise Outsourcing - Technical Writer Origami Risk Employee Review

2.0
Jan 21, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Unlimited PTO. My direct coworker was awesome.

Cons

I was let go because they decided to outsource their documentation. I helped in creating their documentation suite, and without notice, they just decided to abandon in-house writing. The CEO and CTO were asking shady questions and looking for irrelevant quantitative information about how we generate our content. They clearly don't understand how technical writing works and believe that their own employees aren't worth paying for. Avoid this company if you want to work somewhere that actually cares about you instead of viewing you as just a commodity.

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Pros

The only pro of this company is the fully remote work (which also comes with its cons).

Cons

It’s a long list: 1. Micromanagement 2. Politics 3. Promoting long time buddies (with no skills) over skilled young professionals. 4. Ignoring company values when it comes to internal mechanics. Suddenly things aren’t important enough if it doesn’t make you money. 5. Complete misalignment between sales, product and engineering. They sell everything that’s not even in the pipeline for product. 6. The CPO and VP of Product are circus heads, not real professionals. 7. People with different opinions aren’t appreciated. 8. Slack and Outlook tools are monitored for status and location just to come up with any reason for layoffs. 10. Base comp is okay at first but then capped strongly.

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