Big promises but many issues, look for other places if you can!
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Hearing all the juicy gossips and relationship drama on a daily basis was certainly entertaining
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
- Not listening to other's viewpoints and just wanted to do things your way
- Not knowing how to read between the lines
- Not truly caring about employees' wellbeing
Verbesserungsvorschläge
- Should have gotten rid of the other co-founder way sooner
- Drink less alcohol and be on time to meetings and have an agenda
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Long hours and some employees give rather critical instead of constructive feedback. Turnover rate is quite high, and this show bad company culture. For example, legal counsel left after less than a year. Took over six months to find a replacement, who now is also leaving after less than a year. Many good employees who helped build the company, including the only HR Manager at the time, left last year.
Kommunikation
Managers don't really know how to give good feedback to help their employees grow or be a good career coach. Even if you explained your career plans to them, they would forget and continue to expect you to keep doing things the old way. In three months, they would ask the same question again. Also, conducting comprehensive performance reviews, such as 360-degree feedback, is insufficient if there is no accountability or system to build, track, and follow up on action items. Overall, just didn't feel that I was being cared as an employee, even though they like to say 'we are family'.
Work-Life-Balance
Yes, you can leave the office at a reasonable time, like 6pm, but only if you have already resigned. For those still with the company, leaving early gets you passive-aggressive comments. Example is weekly workout session used to start at 6pm but got pushed to 7pm because CEO wanted us to work more. Another example is your boss would call you for work related matters and expect you to answer during your paid vacation. Management say they care about well-being with yoga and meditation classes, but this is just very superficial at best, and hysterical at worst. What employees really want is feedback in surveys to be taken serious, and see real actions to show voices and requests are heard.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
I know it’s a startup and sometimes work is a lot. But many managers worked in big companies before. And they are usually late to meetings. And when he finally arrived, you often could smell his alcohol breath, and of course there was no agenda for the meeting. Also seemed to like to play favoritism.
Gleichberechtigung
Professionalism from a certain executive member with limited domain experience was also questionable, he fired an ethnic female employee with many years of experience just because they could not agree on things and that she did not finish work during weekend. Decisions are formed within a homogenous group most of the time. Many women left the company as well because they felt they were treated unequally. Their commitment to diversity is questionable, even though they recently claimed that they have have several women in senior positions. Take a quick look on LinkedIn and you will see there are only 2 women in Head/VP position.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Not many older colleagues were hired because there isn't much diversity in the first place. Also, no way they can work in a place where long hours is expected, even though they would not admit that publicly
Arbeitsbedingungen
Kitchen was never clean
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
There are at least a few people that left because they didn't receive a raise for over a year even though their performance review was good. Also not sure if asking a wellness company owned by one of the founder's girlfriend to provide online meditation/yoga classes is a benefit
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Asked for it but never made any action items, let alone getting constructive feedback or coaching from the direct manager