Once you leave this company (hell on earth), you begin to understand the extent of the problems and how poorly it's run.
The psychological manipulation and abuse this company inflicts on its employees is particularly striking. This all falls under the guise of their "Nutritional Facts," which they present almost like Moses's Ten Commandments. They've used this as a tool to justify and enable widespread, systematic abuse, creating an almost unbearable toxic environment. In fact, this is a major reason for their incredibly high employee turnover. They simply cannot retain talent, but they mask this by claiming, "We are building something unprecedented in human history, which is why we work so hard and operate this way." This is patently false. Companies like Uber Freight, Convoy, and Amazon have already done similar things. This is likely why they haven't been able to secure new hedge fund investment; it's a failing venture.
Furthermore, they operate under the principle of "Rules for Thee, Not for Me." They strictly apply their "commandments" to employees but not to themselves. Take, for example, "Take Ownership and Accountability to Deliver Results." The C-suite has consistently failed to take accountability and ownership for their mistakes. You can trace all the company's setbacks back to leadership decisions. Instead, they foster a culture of blaming everyone else within the company.
Initially, considering "AI" was part of their company name, the most logical approach to scaling up would have been to plan and automate everything. However, due to their disorganization and refusal to listen to anyone but themselves, they embarked on a hiring spree without any strategy or planning. Only at the very end did they realize their overhead was too high, leading to mass layoffs. Four years later, they've finally realized they need to fully automate. The result? They lied to everyone they hired, fostered a false sense of "family," abused and overworked them, and then laid them off callously, playing with people's lives. It was then I understood these are not good people; they are con artists in roles far beyond their capabilities.
They will demand your entire life, expecting 120-hour workweeks and your complete dedication. For what? A vague promise of revolutionizing an industry? A mission with some undefined revolutionary goal? The commitment they demand is completely disproportionate to the salaries and benefits offered. And the equity? This company is so far from going public that the best-case scenario at this point is selling it. I can speak with certainty about this; the tech debt is enormous. The tech stack is a disorganized, unstable, and fragile mess due to a lack of direction and planning, with everything built on the fly. It's unsustainable. Yet, you'll hear the C-suite talking about wanting a "50-person company with full automation"—give me a break, they are utterly delusional. Their lack of understanding of how software and technology are built is glaringly obvious. They try to portray themselves as gurus, even conducting paid interviews where they talk about LLMs and AI, when they barely have a handful of people to actually build anything.
Again, save yourself the pain. Stay far away from these abusive people and this toxic environment. They will crush you, abuse you, and discard you at the first opportunity.
