Vantaggi
- Interesting tech - Friendly people - Flexible working hours
Svantaggi
- Subpar salaries, especially for seniors. Employees are "forbidden" to discuss compensation. Raise negotiations are dishonest. - Catering to seasonal industry and living on investments, so intense time pressure. - Tons of unpaid overtime, even on weekends and holidays. Workload pressures people to stay long hours, even ones that have stated they do not agree to it. The company cannot survive without the overtime, but that's never addressed. Managers especially have multiple roles that should be separate full-time jobs. It has been said numerous times that this will improve when scaling up, but it never does. - Hires are promised (direct quotes) "fast, result-driven raises" and a "bonus scheme", but many get none of those. - Company is in a cycle of setting unrealistic goals, failing, and reorganizing to "fix it". Some reorgs are never given time to settle before being deemed failures. Tech people are promoted to leads without any training. Unsurprisingly, these moves don't improve the situation. - Team leaders and seniors are leaving and are replaced by juniors if they are replaced at all. Handovers are messy. Consequently, the team is steadily bleeding tech knowledge at this point. - CEO is out of touch with the tech and the team. Some people's contributions are ignored. Many decisions and stated goals are insane and leave the tech people scrambling to keep it together. - Toxic behavior from CEO. Just a few examples: - Cursing & belittling people, even in public channels and meetings. - Badmouthing employees to other employees behind their back. - Lying about company issues, even setting up 1-1 meetings with employees in which he gives conflicting information. - Calling leaders failures and essentially demoting them in public emails/calls