Excessive politics + elitism for such a small company - Product Operations Manager Scale Employee Review

1.0
Jan 26, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Nice benefits (pre-2023), great opportunity to hop into a pressure cooker and ruthlessly develop your skillset.

Cons

Politics involved in every possible decision at every level, and management is inexperienced and fails to communicate effectively to their team. Leadership overlooks negative feedback for employees in their inner circle and doesn't follow through on promised improvements. Elitism runs rampant within the company where those with prestigious education/experience feel obligated to talk down on everyone else. There is no "life", just work, and leadership claims every year that they will improve work-life balance, but employees are still stuck working 100+ hour work weeks for very mediocre pay. No empathy for data labelers, who are treated like expendable tools rather than people.

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5.0
Jul 21, 2026
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Pros

Stellar people. Everyone is kind, brilliant, and clearly the top of their industries. It feels like you're actually on the ground floor of building something great.

Cons

None that I can see so far.

4.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- work with top tier clients across AI research - fast paced projects with insane amount of autonomy from day 1 - really solid pay for non-technical role - in-office/remote flexibility - nice office - accessible leadership - ability to pivot to new stuff if you do well - strong network with alumni all over AI - friendly folks - tech atmosphere with high degree of flexibility

Cons

- long hours but you start late and can wfh - weekends - not very structured and constantly changinf

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