Interesting product, challenging teams - Anonymous employee Chess.com Employee Review

* A number of senior members of staff at the company lack decent people skills, and do not act in the interest of their colleagues. This can lead to some catastrophic issues for people at the company. * The company functions like a “family”. Depending on how you value that, this could be a pro. However, it also leads to a lack of transparency around formal processes. * All overseas staff outside US are contractors: no healthcare, pension, etc. * Slow career progression with not a lot of opportunities to grow. * Fully-remote company with poor resources in their People/HR teams - slow response times, poor communication in the case of issues which need to be addressed. * A lot of employees working very independently, and not a lot of joint up work across teams. * Several periods of layoffs impacting job confidence.