The company likes to tout the idea that it’s a fun and hard-working company which is true in that it's hard but now there are regular jokes about getting laid off so not as fun. There’s huge financial mismanagement to the point where they spend tens of thousands on an HR website when there’s an entire team of paid engineers. Not to mention not being able to pay vendors on time for a while which wasn’t communicated to the company until after they needed a $25 million capital injection to stay afloat. This whole time the CEO will scold everyone on Wednesday mornings to use less paper printing or choose a cheaper entrée while on a business trip.
As for transparency, what a joke. Starting with benefits, if you actually crunch the numbers (or even if you take their calculations without their predicted exponential growth) you’ll find that they’re abysmal. Not to mention never guaranteed; stocks and bonuses are based on company/department performance which has got to be peanuts this year. Additionally, they refuse to put out actual metrics like profit percentage. Instead, there are metrics like the new “AXA” which is a custom number with many variables designed to massage the data to make it look like there’s progress.
Turnover’s a huge problem which they’re “keeping track of” with as-of-yet no concrete plans to make people enjoy their jobs. There was a big listening tour where leaders went around and tried to learn what was wrong, none of this was acted upon. When asked what progress is being made they’ll tell you “we want to bring back trust and that is consistency over time” which sounds like “we’re going to do nothing and wait until people forget how horrible we were”.
There’s no organization with anything which is really nice at times, but its downsides are outsized. For example, a leader took months of leave and came back refusing to do the same job. So naturally, they got a huge promotion while the whole time their interim had been underpaid. For another example, my job offer was for Austin and several months later I was told it wouldn’t be immediate but would be in 6 months. Then 2 weeks after I started, I was told Austin would never be an option for me.
