Everyone in my Cohort Quit Within the First 3 Months - Recensione dipendente - Global Teams Manager presso Crossover for Work

1,0
16 gen 2017
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

They pay you what they say they will...but they also make it very difficult to make your full salary and provide 0 benefits so the salary is not worth taking the job.

Svantaggi

When I took the job as a GTM at Crossover, I was led to believe that the company had set out to be a positive agent to make an impact on the lives of those abroad by giving them stable, white-collar jobs at a salary above market rate from their home countries. I immediately realized that Crossover was falsely advertised–that the ever-distant pursuit of continual increased performance returns came at the expense of people’s livelihood–both of those who I managed and my fellow Stanford hires. I really enjoyed working with these people, and I saw each of them as an important person rather than a performance number. Crossover guarantees no job security, and fosters no trust–the requirement for constant screenshot oversight ensures that culture from the onset. This oversight was carefully concealed in the marketing of Crossover to Stanford students, and I felt deceived once I learned about Worksmart and the nature of the company after starting. Specific feedback about Crossover: - I was hired to manage non-technical teams, and I was placed in charge of engineers. - Productivity does not always have to be beaten out of people with increased oversight. If you create a company culture where people want to do their best out of desire to see the company succeed, the job will still get done and real transparency can be established. - They need to re-evaluate the way they measure metrics. All teams cannot fit into a simple metric, and all teams do not necessarily need much rigid structure to succeed. - They disguise a complete disregard for industry experience and knowledge under the pretense of looking for people who are “young and hungry”. Hiring people who are “young and hungry” is important, but people with no experience or proper knowledge should not be running the organization. - It is not right or smart to encourage people to perform by threatening their job security. - There was a complete lack of structure in their "training", it was so disorganized because of a lack of time invested.

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Risposta di Crossover for Work
9y
Hi - this is Andy Tryba (CEO of Crossover). Sorry that you had this experience - and it's certainly my fault that the latest Stanford cohort we recruited didn't work out - I take full accountability for that. The desire was to hire inexperienced but quick learner/bright folks and teach them how to manage global teams. The theory was rather than hire experienced managers and make them 'forget bad management habits and do ours' - to start from a set of folks that had never managed and have a 'clean slate'. This experiment failed - not because of the bright Stanford folks we brought in - but because we didn't train them well enough on what it takes to a) manage people and b) manage global remote people. It's not easy to jump out of school and be thrust into managing teams of people - and certainly not easy to have all those people be all over the world. We were overly aggressive in the timing we expected the Stanford crew to take over the teams and we didn't do a good job of doing management 101 training. As a result - this crew wasn't armed appropriately. We've now shifted from hiring inexperienced folks to hiring experienced managers and teaching our approach to management. Again - my personal apologies that you had this bad experience - I wish we would have done a better job with y'all. But with that said - I am okay with Crossover continuing experiments and failing - that's how we'll continue to get better. Feel free to reach out to me directly if you want to chat.

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5,0
26 set 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

great company to work for, salary on time

Svantaggi

Demanding work and expects excellence

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Risposta di Crossover for Work
8mo
Glad to hear it’s a great fit and that pay’s been smooth. And yes—the bar is high by design. Thanks for the 5 stars and for leaning into the challenge.
2,0
30 lug 2018
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Il crossover richiede il lavoro da casa. Per molti, questa è una buona cosa e, per me, ha aiutato la produttività. Lo stipendio è buono, ma a seconda della situazione fiscale del tuo paese potrebbe non essere buono come sembra in superficie.

Svantaggi

Da dove comincio? Ho cercato di essere obiettivo con la mia valutazione a 2 stelle; Crossover non è immorale o rubare ai propri dipendenti o qualcosa del genere. Tuttavia, per essere un professionista esperto, attenzione... Mi sono unito a una delle posizioni dirigenziali a livello dirigenziale molto alto, spinto dal loro desiderio di acquisire più di 50 aziende a breve termine. Sono negli Stati Uniti. In quanto tale (e sapevo che questo entrava in gioco), le conseguenze fiscali per essere un appaltatore non sono banali. C'è anche la considerazione che devi finanziare tu stesso eventuali vantaggi: assistenza sanitaria, pensione, ecc. Sebbene lo stipendio sia abbastanza generoso per farlo, non è così brillante come sembra in superficie. Il tuo chilometraggio può variare a seconda del tuo paese di origine. Cosa non mi è piaciuto davvero: monitoraggio/giustificazione costante del flusso di lavoro. Sul serio. Come altri hanno sottolineato, è difficile *ottenere* credito per un'intera settimana lavorativa senza lavorare extra. Soprattutto in alcune delle posizioni di livello superiore e più "creative" come l'architetto, la gestione del prodotto, ecc. c'è un'opportunità minima o assente per rivedere o riflettere sulle cose. Per me lavoro a scatti seguiti da piccole distrazioni in cui eseguo i problemi sullo sfondo dei miei pensieri. Una varietà di colleghi e dirigenti nella mia storia hanno quasi universalmente commentato il volume di buon lavoro che produco. Anche i miei colleghi di Crossover non hanno avuto problemi con la quantità o la qualità della mia produzione. Tuttavia, i loro software e sistemi di tracciamento semplicemente non accreditano nient'altro che un "lavoro" lineare e costante. Questo è stato un male per me, con il risultato che ho lavorato di più, rielaborando le cose mentre cercavo di cambiare i miei processi, "fingendolo" o semplicemente lavorando più a lungo per tentare di guadagnare le mie ore. Mi sono sentito male anche per alcune delle posizioni più junior o "di fabbrica". È davvero monitorato di minuto in minuto, con molti incentivi a trovare "problemi" con la produttività. Questo è davvero un metodo sottilmente velato per strizzare il sangue da una rapa, trovando difetti o lacune ed essenzialmente agganciando la paga. Sì, gli stipendi sono buoni, ma la quantità di lavoro ausiliario che serve per fare ore "reali" è terribile, e mi sono sentito come un cretino che ci ha contribuito. Ho dovuto smettere per la mia sanità mentale.

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Risposta di Crossover for Work
6y
We appreciate your review. Our wages are paid in USD, so it's not going to be as competitive in high tech markets like San Francisco or Boston in the United States where software development is ultra-competitive. However, wages for the same jobs are very competitive in other US cities and outside the US. Sometimes these wages can be 5-6x the local average. Our business model is unique and isn't for everyone. We aren't trying to be like everyone else. The future of work is being redefined. We pride ourselves in being a pioneer in this new paradigm. If you want to know more about this work model, you can read about it here: https://medium.com/@crossoverforwork/the-factory-model-enabling-massive-scale-across-business-functions-98b18ad574f8
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