A Slow Sad Descent Into Corporate Culture - Recensione dipendente - Remote Employee presso CentralReach

I'd like to begin by stating that anything you read here is my own opinion and should not be misconstrued as anything else. I serve to gain nothing by writing this other than to fulfill the purpose of this website by hopefully aiding potential job seekers in making an informed decision about working here and to provide valuable feedback to the company. I understand that the average user of this site rushes here immediately upon being fired in order to vent and get their jabs in. That is not the case in this specific instance. I would normally part from a job the same way that I'd exit any relationship that ends for whatever reason. You take the good with the bad and appreciate the experience of it. I have never had to write a glassdoor review before. I am in no means a disgruntled employee, quite the contrary. I never expected to have to write this review but following a recent run-in with a current member of upper management I have been prompted to feel obligated in doing so. The other day while in public with friends this person approached me acting like we were best friends, mind you this is the same person who virtually handed me my pink slip and has not spoken to me or made any effort to reach out to me in over two years. I am fully aware that they were merely the wielder of the axe and not the judge that sentenced my firing. I don't know about you but when I'm out in public with friends and enjoying myself the last thing that I want to experience is being descended upon by The Grim Reaper unprompted. I made it clear that I had no desire to fraternize with them and upon walking away they found it necessary to yell after me that I had deserved being fired. In my experience, when someone who comes up to you (who you have a cordial/professional relationship with at best) and who's in a position of power would normally take the hint and walk away. Clearly that was not the case here. So being that it was someone who is supposed to represent the company behaving in a less-than-managerial fashion I now find myself here composing this review. As for the rest of my experience with CentralReach I can imagine it's similar to many other startup operations. It begins well enough and is blooming with culture. Upon selling the company to a venture capital firm it all goes downhill from there. After that day the only thing that mattered was the bottom line, and if you helped a few users along the way that was great too. The company used Covid as a means to offload a large number of the original employees which resulted in the death of any remaining culture that was already struggling for life. I thought that I was working for a business that cared about its employees but to the contrary. I witnessed a woman fired on her birthday and a man with a wife and two kids fired just before Christmas. If that doesn't sow a sense of indifference within the ranks I don't know what would. I was slowly pushed out of my position when my manager began hiring their previous coworkers from their prior place of employment and before long the favoritism resulted in me being pushed out of the department entirely. Many of the coworkers that I keep in touch with are either looking for new work or already at different companies for obvious reasons. I've been told that this is much to the chagrin of management who seem to love complaining when better companies poach their workers which is wildly ironic after witnessing them do the same to iCIMS repeatedly. As to the company's business practices and actual product I can only attest to the frequent use of the phrase "building the plane in the air" which from a layperson's perspective doesn't sound like the kind of thing you want to hear on a regular basis in a professional setting where the software in question plays a large role in people's livelihoods and personal wellbeing . On top of that the platform was never built with scalability in mind and is constantly down which leads to the endless task of putting out fires and profusely prostrating yourself to the stakeholders. When I was let go I had accumulated well over a month of PTO and was only paid out two weeks worth of that time. Clearly I wasn't the kind of employee that felt the need to always be in the red with my PTO because at one time I did enjoy coming in to see my coworkers but look where that got me. I'll be sure to never make that mistake again. You live and you learn. In summation, there is no sense of job security or even a whisper of culture but hey, after you've been with the company for 5 years (if you somehow manage the miracle of sticking it out that long) you'll receive a custom embroidered CentralReach Patagonia jacket which will at least keep you warm in the empty office which, much like the culture, is devoid of any body heat due to nobody wanting to actually get together anymore after the death of any semblance of camaraderie that had once been.