Absolute Sham of a Company - Engineer Spreetail Employee Review

1.0
Jul 26, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There were many, many pros up until myself and 120 others were laid off completely out of nowhere.

Cons

The CEO and upper management are completely out of their minds. It is truly staggering to think that these people "planned" for five years to launch an e-commerce brand only to shutter it out of nowhere after 4 months. All upper management are home grown kool-aid drinkers; they can do no wrong in their eyes and all of these little "bumps" (aka people they're screwing over) are just obstacles on their way to "glory". As another reviewer pointed out, one week we were getting the whole "we're still on track, we had some hiccups but big things are ahead" all hands meeting and then the next week the entire team is laid off, not by the CEO because he has absolutely no honor or empathy, but by his CTO henchman who could not have been any more disingenuous with his little lay off speech. Brett and co showed a complete and utter disregard for everybody who put their heart and soul into this product for the last year. They truly make Elizabeth Holmes look good in comparison.

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Spreetail Response
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I'm truly sorry that you were affected by our decision to refocus the company. We don%E2%80%99t take these decisions lightly as we recognize their impact to our colleagues and friends like yourself. I appreciate your contributions and will miss everyone who was affected.We take your feedback seriously, so in recognition of our miss, we've improved transparency around sharing real struggles and areas of improvement. My hope is to continue learning from our missteps and improving in order to prevent them from happening in the future.

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