Vantaggi
The higher-ups will make this start-up look like the opportunity of a lifetime and you will hear a lot about how big the company is going to be “in a few months.”
Svantaggi
Exploro is broke. B R O K E. The managers are incredibly shady, and by the end of my short stint here of less than six months, I had been lied to so many times I felt uncomfortable coming in to work. The CEO would blame the company’s problems — missing paychecks, lack of funds, zero transparency— on the previous HR rep. After going through a few different people, the company finally decided to just not have HR at all. Every paycheck was extremely late. No one could access their pay stubs, rather— when we were paid, the amount would appear as a wire transfer into our accounts. We had no way of knowing whether or not this amount was correct, seeing as we were not granted access to the system that allegedly had our pay stubs. After weeks of working with no pay, a few of us raised our concerns once more. Barely a week later, we were fired. If by some miracle this company lasts a bit longer and you do decide to work here— watch the other employees and count them as they disappear one by one. As Exploro doesn’t generate any real income on its own, our paychecks solely relied on investor’s funds. The website looks terrible, there were weird comments about the women in the office, and none of us could tell you what this company really even did. Despite the CEO’s favoritism of the tech developers, the website somehow never worked right or looked good. The content team was all fired, and anyone who wasn’t let go is clinging on a fake idea that Exploro is going to suddenly become a global success. Sunk cost fallacy, perhaps?