Vantaggi
Its mainly work from home
Svantaggi
There is a triangle for an ideal job: 1. You are well paid 2. You are developing 3. You enjoy what you do GetHarley does not offer any of these. Salary is embarrassingly low considering the market average and what is expected of you. It might be understood if this was due to funds being carefully spent. However it’s because it’s more important to spend on outward appearance such as fancy client dinners, gifting and celebrity cameos which apparently is the business priority. They say that they externally benchmark salaries with other top companies which is delusional considering the current gap in pay, both between teams and with the real world. GH is not a place for development or progression because you will be dumped with manual and meaningless tasks with no support or mentorship. There are impossible targets to meet and you are blamed for outcomes that are outside of your scope or control. The only thing you will be developing is severe mental health issues. There is a clear unhappiness within the workforce that has been brought up again and again through various mediums however it’s very apparent that the people team do not care because no action is ever taken to improve, there is no psychological safety in this environment -you are prodded to give honest feedback but then get punished and gaslighted once you say anything as you “chose to be in a start up”. As far as start up stages go, for a company that is going into their 6th year, there is no excuse for this level of ineptitude. There is no structure or guideline in place and management do what they like on a case by case basis. A common theme is that leadership put things in place just so that they can say they have them but it’s meaningless as there no action or outcome. People are undervalued and mistreated as most of the workforce are fresh graduates which are perfect for the company to exploit because they do not yet know what a healthy work place is meant to be like. Awful culture of toxic positivity where you are micromanaged, asked to justify every minute taken on a task and pushed to burn out with expectations of working outside of your scope. CEO would proudly say that we are a plane flying with one wing missing and the engine on fire which is somehow meant to be motivating but it just highlights how things are not done properly whilst running on fumes. Some fun incidences during my time: - Manager gave me a task and explicitly said I can’t ask for help. - Manager “promoted” myself and a few others as “leads” and gave us direct reports to manage but then back tracked when it came to end of year reviews. - Manager blamed me for my project not progressing when it was deemed as not a priority for engineering as if I had any say in that. - Must be a coincidence that senior and VP level people leave like dominoes - Team lead pressured a colleague to contact me whilst I was on holiday because boundaries are not respected. I urge anyone looking at this company to take previous posts seriously, it is clear that these reviews are not one off which is evident by the amount of people leaving monthly and the average tenure being less than a year. If you want to suffer or tank your career prospects consider applying, if you value your wellbeing please move on.
