The CTO of the company, who was previously the CEO and founder of the original Machinify company, is utterly toxic. He absolutely does not care about about his employees and is more than willing to sacrifice them on the altar of shareholder value.
He publicly berates and shames individuals in meetings with whom he disagrees and micromanages as much as possible. I have also noticed that he is more prone to target female employees with his tirades than male employees.
He is surrounded by nepotistic hires who never hold him accountable for this behavior and who exhibit these same toxic tendencies themselves. But executive leadership in the VC firm which acquired the company and leaders from the other companies with which it has merged all just see the profits and think he is a genius.
The person who gets their way in a meeting is the person who yells the loudest. People almost constantly cut each other off in conversation on Zoom calls. You'll end up doing it yourself to survive.
The code base is a dumpster fire. When you ask for documentation explaining a particular feature, you are told to "read the code," but the code is full of bugs, typos, and design decisions that make little to no sense. This labyrinthine monolithic architecture catches on fire once a week in production, if not once a day.
You may notice a lot of other reviews on here from folks in analyst roles. Those are employees from Rawlings, one of the 4 companies we've combined with. The engineering side of the business is working to replace all of them with AI, and leadership is working them to the bone in the meantime even though customers are already complaining about shoddy AI-generated results. Layoffs are likely planned for after the holidays, and none of the combined companies will be exempt.
The CEO openly bragged about hanging out with Trump administration folks at the Make America Healthy Again summit. This felt pretty tone deaf given the company also just downgraded all of our healthcare to worse plans with my own premiums going up 37%.
Lastly, there are a lot of technical people here that know a lot about AI, myself included. There are also a lot of people, particularly in leadership, who pretend to know a lot about AI. Their false confidence in these tools and unwillingness to acknowledge the value of their employees is truly demoralizing and bad for the business.
