Toast Inc reviews

RTO is overkill. Some people work fantastic from home. If there is a performance issue then yes, managers should have the authority to get employees to come into office. As someone at the company for over 3 years, and got exceeds in all of my performance reviews - why am I being required to come into the office 2 x days per week.

I had wrongly assumed that there would be elements of a software company type culture where people are empowered, given autonomy to make decisions as knowledge workers given the nature of the product. I was very off the mark, The leadership culture is old fashioned, lacking trust and out of touch with modern software companies. (I’ve worked in many). People are afraid to challenge management for fear of lay offs (which are regular). There’s no clear direction or goals leaving people questioning if there doing the right work, this then works in the favor of redundancy cycles as there’s nothing defined as valuable work.