Wheels are coming off - Engineer Cytora Employee Review

1.0
24 Jan 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Intelligent employees Fairly open culture Nice serviced offices Snacks Annual trip abroad

Cons

Cytora is currently failing. They're desperately searching for 'product-market fit' which is eluding them. As such, they are continually restructuring teams, hiring people to then make them redundant months later, and working key members of staff beyond their limit (resulting in one senior team member reduced to tears in the office due to exhaustion). Other key members have recognised this and left. Machine Learning features less and less in their product roadmap, in favour of simple automation tools sold to small insurance brokers, usually on a consultancy basis. Since series B funding in early 2019 they have made no new sales deals, and have in fact lost two of their biggest pipeline deals. How long before investors pull the plug? Management have no empathy, whilst selling the vision of Cytora being the next 'unicorn'. Growth plans are grossly inflated. Stock options are worthless, and subject to continual dilution.

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Cytora Response
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Thanks for your comments. In any start-up, change is frequent and can feel disruptive but is an unavoidable part of working for a fast growing business. We have the utmost confidence in our brilliant people to continue taking the company forward.

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