Catfish - GP is nothing like the image it projects
Pros
Remote work. Great international work colleagues. GP has so much turnover, you'll always have new faces to meet.
Cons
Processes and people change, daily, and always seem for the worse. There's little accountability from departmental heads, they are too busy to give guidance and a huge burden is placed on the front line. Constant anxiety, little training beyond the first 2 weeks of onboarding, and lack of respect from leadership. Feedback is shunned and for a company that preaches transparency and people-first, they do the exact opposite. Incredibly draining and toxic environment. Directors and VPs are patronizing and speak down to you under the guise of "genuinely caring about your growth". All of the "do good" initiatives exist merely as a brand play. The departmental heads do not actually care about paying you competitively or contributing to charity or whatever new thing they're plugging - they just want to gloat about them on social media to attract new hires and make this place seem like something it isn't. 2 different directors and VPs in under 12 months, due to random rounds of firing, without sufficient explanation, also 3 different CEO's and 3 CRO's The diversity here is a joke. Practically the whole HR department is female, and all the engineering team is male. The only people who thrive here are people who came in 5+ years ago and are chums with the older leadership team, they're the only internal employees who get promoted, they are all white middle-class Americans. You see a lot of non-white faces on the marketing content and website, but in reality, I can count on 1 hand how black employees there are, globally. Don't be fooled by the pretty 5-star reviews that are filled with false claims. A company-wide email goes out at least once a month asking employees to write a 5-star review on glassdoor, or as soon as an honest review is uploaded. Understanding what goes on behind the curtain and knowing that the pro's listed and the 5-star reviews on this page are all written by management or were asked to be written by their manager - is absolutely hilarious. If you are not based in the US, you get paid and treated like a 2nd class citizen, GP is the epitome of what's wrong with corporate America today. Like most of my colleagues here, once this economic downturn passes, we will be moving on to greener pastures.
