XYZ Reality reviews

- Redundancy rounds in June 2022, August 2023, November 2024, May 2025, October 2025. They have haemorrhaged money as well as incredible talent and incredible people during this time whilst completely ruining the company culture and vision. Irreparable now. The trust has gone. - Redundancies usually come a short time after an All Hands meeting where they have been bigging up how well the company is doing and how revenue is at record levels. And then boom, 19 more people are gone overnight (tactical number). There is no warning, it comes completely out of the blue every time and this can leave you in financial difficulty if you are not prepared when you’re next on the chopping board. Always be prepared. Have a safety net, and keep your CV up to date. - “Scrappy start up” excuse / mentality, after 8 years in business! It comes down to either laziness or incompetence, or both, at this point. - Have scrapped a large portion of the sales and pipeline team in the last two rounds of redundancies, they are desperate for revenue yet have got rid of the people generating it. - Product is massively overpriced meaning it is not an easy sell even if it has value. Other solutions in the market are further advanced in AI/ML aspects and half the price. Being/been overtaken very quickly. Not revenue team’s fault if you’ve packaged it at an unsaleable price point. - Some team members, including some leadership/senior staff, can speak to others in a very derogatory way if they don’t like something. Can be toxic (this is a very small number of people but they are aware of this issue and it doesn’t change) - Timescales and roadmaps are usually unachievable and either get canned or cause significant issues internally and externally. - Whether you’ll ever get a promotion or pay rise is usually dependent on which team you work in or who your manager is, not what you do - Poor employer pension contributions (3%) - Have been trying and failing to get Series B funding for years. It’s not coming. No matter how many costs/employees they cut to try and get there. They must’ve met with every investor out there by now. - Salaries have not stayed competitive with rest of market as they don’t have the funds. But yet as others have mentioned, no expense is spared on trips to Cannes, Vegas etc for leadership/sales teams events. - The stress of working for this company severely affected my mental health

- As previous reviews have mentioned there has been significant employee churn and frequent redundancy rounds (June 2022, August 2023, November 2024, May 2025, October 2025). This contributes to a wider feeling of unease, low psychological safey, stretched resources, poor morale and an absolutely rotten company culture. - The business claims to put people first but has little to no regard for the emotional wellbeing of it’s staff. Going back to the redundancy point, a company wide mandatory all staff meeting will get put in your diary the day of (likely after comms about how well the company has been performing...) - Axing half the go to market team within the demand gen space and having virtually no wider marketing team remaining to support revenue building initiatives. All driven from a poorly misguided notion of marketing and how it serves sales. There are so many missed opportunities here with proper investment could massively propel XYZ in a time that they should be doubling down on growth and market penetration. - GTM is very data centre–centric. The strategic rationale makes sense, but the tight focus can feel unnecessarily restrictive when the product has clear applicability across broader mission-critical infrastructure sectors. - What was once competitive salaries are no longer market rate. Claims that salaries would be reviewed annually but in actual fact did not materialise. - Weak benefits and poor pension contribution. - Shoestring budgets and small teams with massive expectations. - Very expensive solution that is tricky to sell and limits the pool of prospects. - There was a sense of hostility from parts of senior management, often driven by preconceived views formed on incomplete or misguided assumptions. There also appears to be an inner circle at XYZ, and if you are not part of it, having your voice heard can be challenging.