I guess it all depends on your team (maybe that makes a huge difference, i don't know) but this is what I experienced:
Always something going on:
- There is literally always something going on. Management will find a way to pile it on someone and then keep piling things without taking the time to make sure the employee has the bandwidth or adequate support to succeed.
- Understaffed teams
Work Culture/The Blame Game:
- Toxic work culture/ environment - especially under the Business org - management in this team seem to always be trying to find someone to blame when things fall through rather than taking accountability or providing support to overcome challenges.
- Everyone is overworked and exhausted - burnout everywhere every team. The problem that this introduces is that people start making mistakes, which causes issues and then at Freenome this usually ends in a blame game. Ick. Most of my colleagues and former Freenome employees have expressed feeling burnout and/or receive inadequate coaching and support from managers.
Management:
- The story here is that there has been some longstanding history of "problems with management in the Engineering department", which has supposedly been fixed now so there should be no manager issues. I don't know if it was intentional for Freenome to point the finger at Engineering as having "bad" managers, fixing this, and then use it as a story to say that they do resolve issues with management. With all this going on it really would have made sense to give all of your managers some training. All I can say is there still are still management issues that get swept under the rug - typically in the clinical lab, business org, and quality dept.
- Leadership and management don't actually practice the empathetic values that the company preaches
Petty Drama
- The odds of the person on the left of you on zoom having beef with the person on your right are pretty high. There's a lot of petty drama between people here.
- There is this superiority complex that some departments and teams have, which has led to drama (our team is important so our requests need to be serviced first - i want a pony!).
-I always thought this was a bit weird, but in larger meetings, management would occasionally boast about gathering together at each others houses (probably to gossip about coworkers).
Unequal treatment and support for all employees
- People with special needs/disabilities tend to get treated as a burden and swept aside and don't usually get support from their managers. It's likely because managers don't have the right type of training on how to support all types of employees.
