Very toxic place to work unless you like constantly being rated - Anonymous employee Canonical Employee Review

1.0
7 Apr 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Flexible work culture - Remote - Strong tech background

Cons

- Horrible review system - Very manipulative environment - male dominated - "Every man for himself" - Fire you very quickly - associates get 1 year before they cull them if they don't get promoted. You have to be top 10% to be promoted.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
23 May 2026
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Pros

Met some interesting people, had some interesting conversations.

Cons

Was constantly hearing bad stories about upper management. I only experienced the CEO expressing minor annoyance and paranoia a couple of times. My line manager always seemed to be treading water, fixated on dev-ops ceremonies, and didn't respect the opinions of his peers. The guy who was the "expert" for my field practised management by spreadsheet and was completely out of his depth, always obsessing about his approach to the work and inflicting his opinion on everyone else. Spent too much time having to plan for travel or hear about everyone's travel plans. Wasted so much time in the company's ongoing recruitment drive which pushes most of the work of interviewing and filtering candidates onto regular employees.

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