90 Seconds Reviews

1.9

12% would recommend to a friend

(109 total reviews)

Tim Norton

10% approve of CEO

13% positive business outlook

90 Seconds has an employee rating of 1.9 out of 5 stars, based on 109 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a poor working experience there. The 90 Seconds employee rating is 51% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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109 reviews
1.0
9 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

No pros for engineers. If you're a manager and just agree with everything the CEO says - it is probably a good company to join.

Cons

CEO is trying to manage EVERYTHING. He "knows" how to manage the Engineering team, Finance team, Product team. I don't want to say it's a bad thing. He's the CEO and he can do whatever he wants. But the way he does it - it's very annoying. Many employees want to make great product but not everybody in management can. Plans are changing 2-3 times monthly because "WE ARE A STARTUP", which is okay too. But then the CEO comes and asks "where is the product, guys?". Management sucks, team structure sucks (it's a normal thing here when you work on 2-3 different things at a time). It's hard to argue with the CEO, it's easier to leave the company instead. Stupid technical decisions were made by the CEO and engineering leads (under the CEO's pressure) a few months ago, and it was not the first time. The engineering team is absolutely demotivated. New "engineering director" asks you to work 150% harder and promises that you will be rewarded, but most likely you will be fired instead than rewarded just because all the bonuses which HR department promised before (when I joined) have gone nowhere. I know people who left the company in less than two weeks after joining just because of the "company culture". Once somebody left a negative but really honest review on Glassdoor and the CEO asked all the people to come to the second floor to discuss it. I was 100% sure he was going to ask us: "Do you guys really think the review make sense and should we change the way how we work?"; But he just stated the review is a LIE and it's hard to hire new people because of it, and it's author should delete the review. I was shocked. And the author has deleted the review (sic!). Hey man, if you're reading this and you have balls - post your beautiful review again!

1.0
23 Mar 2019

An example of how not to run a company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- The middle management and colleagues are a joy to be around. There are really highly talented and intelligent people working at the company which makes coping with the multitude of cons bearable. People really work hard to try and change the way things have been mismanaged, push the upper management to do the right things. - Compensation is good for those not looking for a meaningful job, and just want to clock in clock out. - Hours are flexible but your time won’t be respected.

Cons

- Leadership is weak, incompetent and delusional. The people placed into leadership positions have no experiences because they have been in the company for years and promoted because of that, not based on their actual ability to lead or manage. Bad management practices are rampant from publicly blaming/shaming employees (for failures not caused by them) and not owning up to their own mistakes as leaders, to not building up good processes to enable the very talented people they hired to do their job, low EQ, or any form of emotional maturity, micromanagement, lack of direction (changes every time the ‘leaders’ have those 2 week meetings in the chamber of secret), lack of transparency. If a leader makes it on time to a meeting, it’s a miracle. When the company goes through tough times, upper management disappears all at the same time to come back and again, in denial, claims everything is “up and up!” - As a result, the culture is hush hush that if you disagree or even suggest a better way to do something, you will get condemned or threatened to be fired. It stifles any motivation new hires can muster in the first few months they join and eventually everyone realises in order to survive, they need to become “yes” man or pack up and leave. - There’s a fundamental lack of understanding of how businesses work, from managing cost and burn to understanding market and competition to building good and healthy work culture. No Growth. The legacy product is mismanaged into an outdated, barely functioning piece of software and again the blame was shifted to the employees for not doing their job. While the root causes lie in the market and mismanagement of product development. But these real problems are not addressed because the upper management is too busy avoiding blame. - It is impossible for anyone to make any change (even though you’ve got some of the smartest people around you who try to also help change the bad habits) because of the things mentioned above: horrible dictatorship, severe lack of expertise and professionalism, and most importantly the non existent humility to own up to mistakes and fix them. It’s as if the upper management exists in an entirely different universe or they think it is acceptable to treat people (and run a company like this and think the investor money will keep coming in) - All of these bad practices came from the founders, the CEO in particular and get multiplied when they hire yes men into other positions - The positive reviews here are fake. Look at the Helpful votes and reach out to former employees to ask for a more accurate feedback of what it’s like working here

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90 Seconds Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We have a bunch of talented folks and glad to know that you enjoy being around these awesome people! We have invested to augment and strengthen the leadership team and they have been hand picked to complement the existing team. Together, we consistently endeavour to learn from our past and march ahead firmly, positively. Best, 90 Seconds Talent Team
1.0
2 Mar 2020

I would not recommend to my worst enemy

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. office space and we have plenty of that. 2. got to meet life long friends - most of them left the company and only a few remains as of now 3. internal WiFi works great across the road from the office but doesn't work inside the conference rooms 4. artificial plants bc reminds me of nana's house 5. yoga mats bc it's cheap to fill in space 6. location 7. mid-night WhatsApp message from the CEO to wake me up from the nightmare of working for a company called 90 Seconds. 8. able to claim PTSD disability for my next job 9. daily psychotherapy at a local bar between 4pm - 10. the pain will last a year or less

Cons

1. leadership is called "The Tripod" 2. toxic CEO! loves to blah blah blah. 30min meeting turns into all day meeting with the CEO. did I mention he likes to talk the entire time? 3. anyone who is remaining is looking for another job 4. 25% occupied in the office, .25% mentally occupied 5. high turnover and it's not bc of restructuring. rare anyone lasts over a year in this company 6. the CEO wants all the communication done through Slack but he only communicates via WhatsApp 7. broken products and no innovation, the internal term is called "continuous creation by recycling continuous creation" 8. leadership focuses on your desktop spaces to be arranged in a certain way and labeling each space bc the companies are built on "desktop space arrangements and labels" 9. the company is a classic case of ADHD bc that's how it's managed 10. MORNING HUGS AND KISSES BY THE CEO EVEN WITH THE CORONAVIRUS IS GOING ON!!!

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