Review - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Soloshot

* Open minded and collaborative executive team. * Lots of trust to employees, irregardless of title and rank. * See the execs on a daily basis. They are on the ground floor working just as hard as everyone. * Lots of career growth opportunities. * Very smart and passionate colleagues. Nobody is asked to stay late or the weekends, but there's a strong feeling of shared fate of success, so everyone works really hard and doesn't complain about it. * Mentorship by proximity. * Growing quickly.

* Growing quickly (this is a pro and a con). Lots of new faces. This doesn't mean that the new team members are bad, just hard keeping a close-knit feel. * You are expected to be flexible to sudden curveballs, e.g. make something work in one week that technically won't be ready for one more month, but fake it somehow.

While working at SOLOSHOT, I met some amazingly talented people in their profession. They are working on pretty creative technology. They offer a couple perks to the job which may make it worthwhile. They still have a startup mentality, so you can feel the energy from those that you work with.

My first impression was that they would be an exciting company to work for. However, though most of the team is quite talented, they came across as quite cold. New to the Bay Area, they have a long ways to go before they realize how to treat employees better. A few of the executives and seniors in the company are quite amazing people. But there are some who won't even acknowledge or address those without an executive or senior title--incredibly arrogant and narcissistic. They also claim to make most of their decisions on data, but the majority of the decisions they made while I was there was purely biased--lacking a researched approach. Furthermore, because it is a startup (even after three years), I found that some people were in charge of things that they knew little about and were very adamant about decisions they made despite the fact that they were hired me for my experience and expertise. Lastly, they were very poor at communication. They withheld a lot of information and never conveyed specifics about what they wanted. When deadlines came around, they were never happy and then added to the scope of the project.