Unproductively hierarchical, cult-like immature environment - Product Robinhood Employee Review

1.0
Dec 19, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Solid pay and benefits (relatively typical for tech companies, however). - Moderate to mild respect for customer perspectives (better than some companies, I guess.)

Cons

- Absolutely terrible work-life balance across all product teams. Robinhood moves from one disaster to the next, trying to find its footing amongst mediocre product launches. - Unreasonable requests from leadership constantly derail product efforts and create chaos amongst peers. - Cult-like worship of upper management and a zero tolerance attitude dissenting opinions. - Awful prioritization of resource allocation; product teams are highly reactive and seldom understand limitations of their work. - One of the worst marketing teams this side of the U.S.; firing the CMO hardly had an effect on useless marketing practices. - Promotions are driven by blind peer feedback mechanisms that hardly encourage transparency or authenticity. Significant bias in promotion processes and quotas for promoting employees (encourages extremely unhealthy competition). - Absence of diversity across leadership. Where is leadership representation for the BIPOCs that the company supposedly cares so much about (particularly Latin/black employees?) It is all a facade. - Toxic culture of gossip, cutthroat behaviors, and high school-like cliques that are unwelcoming of new employees.

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