An honest review - Anonymous employee Presence Employee Review

3.0
Jan 16, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. The people. They hire talented, passionate and smart people. 2. The product. 3. The reason they exist. Helping kids on a daily basis and having an impact on their lives is extremely fulfilling.

Cons

The secret, which I learned after I was hired, is that one of the CEO's has an awfully short temper and pronounced lack of maturity. He has tantrums and yells things that you would expect only out of the mouth of a poorly parented teenager. If you get on his bad side for whatever reason (and the reasons can be somewhat unpredictable), your time with the company will be, as Thomas Hobbes put it, “Nasty, brutish, and short.” I witnessed this time and again. And again. He also seems to have little awareness that the walls are thin and we can hear him yelling through them. So if you’re lucky enough to stay on the guy’s good side, it’s all roses and butterflies. If you don’t…yikes.

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