Terrible Company. Avoid at all costs for the sake of your sanity - Recensione dipendente - Software Engineer presso FloSports

FloSports used to be an incredible company but lately it's been a dumpster fire. For a decently sized company, it has the volatility of a small startup. We have hired several people into SLT and those people were fired pretty quickly. Before that, the CEO fired the COO, which in my opinion was a terrible decision because the COO was a decent leader. While the former 2 firings could have been good firings, this generally speaks very poorly of the CEO's ability to vet and hire valuable senior leadership. With the recent changes leadership for product and engineering, it seems this is a repeat case. Leadership is making decisions and changes within P&E which largely make no sense and is making organizational changes that again, make no sense. Not only that, but they are propping up people within engineering leadership that has directly resulted in immense degradation of morale. They bully current and former employees by sending them cease and desists, threatening to sue them. FloSports leadership would sue their own family, which, funnily enough, they have, but they lost that. You'd think they would have learned. Engineering leadership has been especially abysmal lately and has been the cause of several people leaving recently. They allowed more senior engineers to bully their more junior engineers. They only disciplined said engineers when those senior engineers made their ways known to people higher up in the organization. In fact, engineering leadership allowed those engineers to bully people and generally to be terrible coworkers because they were afraid of losing them and their knowledge. The career ladder is a joke. You could do everything right and still be passed over for a promotion. Favoritism is absolutely rampant. If you are buddied up to a high ranking engineering leader, you can expect higher raises and more promotions. With the recent change in leadership inside product and engineering, this is even more apparent. They have continued and even made the favoritism worse. High ranking folks get constant promotions and raises off the backs of their lower people. All they do is sit in the room and get all the credit where it really matters, promotions and raises. FloSports generally pays very poorly. They forced RTO back in April, which was a really poor decision and caused a lot of valuable people to leave. The CEO realized his mistake and deemed it up to each department on RTO policies. You would think the leadership for engineering would let engineers work from home more, given that over 85% of engineering are remote. Apparently we do not live in the world of common sense because even though engineers have to travel to the office to join a google meet which they can do from the safety and comfort of their own home, the leadership for product & engineering has doubled down, keeping the 4 day a week minimum. Recently FloSports had some layoffs. While I generally abhor layoffs, they have a purpose. Within Product & Engineering, instead of using the layoffs strategically, to make cuts in lower priority areas, leadership has used those layoffs to essentially fire people they do not like. In the meeting after the layoffs, leadership described product as being understaffed, which is puzzling, because he just fired multiple product managers. If you were to join FloSports in Engineering, you can expect a very corporate environment. Leadership is no longer about helping engineers grow. They only care about the bottom line now. It is now a common practice to give PIPs with no communication of issues before the PIP. You can also rest assured that employees will always pay for the mistakes of the CEO, including them buying an office with 2 floors in downtown Austin in 2022, when everyone was remote and instead of realizing they made a bad decision, they instead forced RTO. You will always be paying for the bad decisions of your managers and the leadership of FloSports. Avoid this company because it is in fact the plague and will suck all the life and happiness from you.