1) CEO and main co-founder - Completely out of touch with the daily challenges of implementing a product that's been around for ~ 6 years and still is in its infancy stage. Imagine having to retain customers and force them to renew after they've struggled for a year with what is hands down the most basic of Financial Planning and Analysis tools in the space. Would not be able to do a demo of her company's product; that is the biggest red flag for anyone looking to join
2) CPTO - The questions this individual asks indicate someone who is nascent to this space as the questions are quite naive and highlight a general lack of awareness in this space. Lucky for him that he knew one of the VCs that put money in Cube so he could land this role
3) CFO - used to be at We Work; don't need to say anymore on that
4) CXO - Zero understanding of Financial Planning and Analysis and this specific tech Space. Crude and crass individual who thinks Pivot Tables answer everything. Zero understanding of how the product works or how far behind Cube is compared to competitors half their age
5) Sales Team - How is it that the people doing demos have never implemented Cube for a customer? No wonder we can't scope anything correctly and if you ever point that out to them, they have a list of defensive answers ready
6) Overall Assessment
a) The 2 rounds of layoffs that happened earlier this year were a blessing to those impacted because these were the smartest and hardest working people within the Organization and the only ones with a backbone that spoke up
b) Whoever is left at Cube now and whoever joins for the most part represent the third tier of talent out there; these are all the yes people who do whatever they can to get by and essentially have no backbone
c) Product is very limited in what it can do and the Engineering team takes months to ship new features versus what others can do in a matter of weeks
d) The whole distraction with Hybrid work and office locations in the most expensive places within US and Canada indicate a complete awareness of the frugality needed to build a startup from the ground up
e) The latest round of fundraising is yet to be included on any official channels which means they took out a line of credit so they can stay afloat since Sales are down and Retention is down
f) Cube has done a great job of building their Executive Team with people that love sitting in their Ivory towers and not doing any actual leg work while deciding that layoffs are needed since the team is too big for a startup of this size
Final Recommendation - If you are desperate for work, then join but if you can find something else, then do yourself a favor and skip this one
