Incompetent and Delusional CEO - Recensione dipendente - Operations presso Traba

1,0
11 mag 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The only pro was that there were highly intelligent and motivated people working here, but everyone has left. To anyone who is thinking about joining - do yourself a favor and skip this place.

Svantaggi

1) All the talent has left: in the past months the entire senior staff has deserted. Heads of departments across sales, finance, operations as well as the COO and COS have all left. Everyone has either left for new roles or "family reasons" which is code for "we can't stand working with the CEO anymore". Everyone who is still here is busy interviewing and has one foot out the door already. 2) CEO is the problem: To summarize, he is incompetent, delusional, and a hypocrite. He runs the company through Claude, outsourcing judgement, vision, and direction to AI chatbots. It's so laughably apparent when he sends slacks that it's all slop, and everyone makes fun of him and just ignores him. 3) Toxic work environment: Everything the CEO does is so performative. He preaches 9-9-6, but sits around doing nothing and comes to meetings unprepared, reusing the same 4/5 phrases (how are you inverting the company today, is this the best thing we can do for the company, don't be a cog, compress timelines). He sits by the entrance every morning to see when people come in and your manager will get a nasty slack if you are 1-2 mins late. In the afternoon he'll set up an "outside meeting" where he'll go to the gym for 4 hours and then come back at 6:59pm to see who is leaving at 7pm. The surveillance culture terrible and he has a few insiders who will rat people out. 4) Low pay / low reward: The CEO tries to sell everyone every week during all hands on how much the equity is going to be worth, and uses that to justify the below average pay. The equity isn't going to be worth anything, the guy is just sooo cheap. Our travel stipend is so unreasonable that when we obviously can't find the right rates he'll yell at us and ask "did you really need to go visit that client? What did you do there that justifies the cost?" 5) Don't value people: The just don't care about the people building the company. There's no training, no ramping, no retaining. The CEO only celebrates people who are agreeable to him and will kick people out with very little notice or explanation. He's vengeful of people who leave and take roles elsewhere or start their own thing.

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5,0
2 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Really cool product with strong PMF Great leadership Company moves fast on bad performers so the people that are actually here are good

Svantaggi

None that I can think of

1,0
27 apr 2026
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

- High-impact work - Unmatched talent density — Traba is full of top performers who are genuinely some of the smartest, hardest-working people you’ll ever meet

Svantaggi

- The hours are ridiculous (9am–9pm in the office daily) and expectations are high. It’s nearly impossible to maintain a life outside of work, especially if you want to succeed here - Leadership cares way too much about the number of hours you're clocking in the office — it’s bizarre & unproductive - Turnover is insanely high, and they make zero effort to retain top talent, even when the cost of hiring and training replacements should justify it — the product + business model are unnecessarily complicated & require a good amount of time to learn. Yet the company doesn’t invest enough in properly ramping up new hires to set them up for success. As a result, employees are often let go prematurely (also, arbitrarily) before they’ve had a fair chance to ramp up & prove themselves. - They also have no problem letting people go who've pretty much poured their entire lives to this company — people who’ve dedicated 60+ hours of their time & energy to this failing business week over week - Overall, the level of sacrifice required to work here is not normal & it’s hard to justify considering how low the pay is

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