The company is top-heavy with ideas, and dissent is not sought, appreciated, or heeded. There's an illusion of a flat company structure like you might see at a startup, but the hierarchy becomes apparent when opinions differ. Only the opinions of the key decision-makers matter. Some decision-makers even question why you would disagree with them, which eventually leads to nobody disagreeing out loud, stifling collaboration. Why hire smart and opinionated people who want to contribute, then?
They have only recently figured out that they should first learn what users want before implementing one person's design or feature idea. They keep course-correcting after making preventable and expensive mistakes. This ruins both the employee experience and the user experience.
It only takes one bad hire in the wrong position to wreck morale.
Overall:
- Zero mobility in the company
- Zero accountability from leadership, especially HR when it comes to company initiatives and values
- HR has done a nice job at removing any semblance of company culture from Wurl with a messy attempt to build morale
- Leadership constantly tells employees to "stay tuned" or "more to come" without providing follow up, substance or answers
- Referral program in 2021 led to friends hiring friends, not talent... creating unbalanced favoritism and unfit hires (referree just wants the big pay bonus)
- Company has no intention of supporting the people behind the company in a way that will increase the morale and trust
