A beautiful idea with so much potential gone wrong - Anonymous employee Human API Employee Review

1.0
13 Jul 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The idea is great, and promising, some of the people inside are fun to work with and really smart but most of them overlooked.

Cons

Challenging areas are governed by strong opinions which tend towards over engineering and over planning/designing features, and this behaviour has being always encouraged by management. In the culture management has encouraged, it is better to keep quiet, and is easy to become distrustful. The current environment encourages work over life balance. The current environment promotes micromanaging people. The current environment promotes over controlling codebases (which it calls it ownership). The current environment promotes loyalty and agreeable stances vs actual knowledge and experience. The current environment encourages self-bias and discourages argumentative discussions to avoid confrontation by agreeing with a person and then ignoring it completely and doing otherwise.

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Human API Response
8y
Thank you for your feedback. I agree that the values and approaches you’ve described here are not those of a healthy company, and certainly not ones that I want to foster at Human API (on our engineering team or otherwise). I readily accept any criticism that helps us learn and reflect. If you are still at Human API, please reach out to me directly. As you know, we’ve been transparent about the places in which we are investing for our next phase of growth. I’d like to work with you to understand if you think we should be investing in other places. We’re still a small company which makes it a lot easier to ensure that everyone is heard. Please reach out to me directly any time. - Andrei

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5.0
1 Sept 2017
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Pros

My context: relatively new hire as of this writing. I work with all facets of the business from sales to ops to engineering, etc; lived through startup life before. Human API is/has: -Trying to solve a big health data problem that is functionally critical (not "fuzzy") -Dedicated and solid core of people who are smart and passionate. Strong personalities, but importantly, open minded. -Market traction: while a complex product, nearly all potential customers take our call, or are reaching out proactively -(As of this writing) extremely dynamic/important time both in market and team development: every new person and customer makes a difference. As for other poor/sarcastic reviews, my advice to candidates: come and see for yourself, and ask lots of questions.

Cons

These are more considerations--the company is too small not to determine your own destiny at any level and one man's trash is another's treasure. No red alarms that aren't typical growing pains at a company of our size--there are never enough resources and getting through this the point of being in a startup. Problems this quarter are strengths two quarters from now, etc. Those not use to working with larger enterprise customers should expect long sales cycles. Use of health data is very much in its infancy in a lot of respects--prepare for the long game and battling deep entrenchment.

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Human API Response
8y
Thanks for your perspective and for taking the time to share your thoughts. - Andrei
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