This startup company is to say the least the epitome of the "modern day slavery of the start up world". The job ad describes working in a flat hierarchy, however the CEO leads all the meetings, only listens to certain co-workers, is a control freak, expects you to work from Mo-Sa. from 10am to 10pm for a basic salary. And then will get angry or "disappointed" when you tell him that this company isn't your life.
Basically he wants to create the next Netflix/Google/Amazaon, but sorry you cannot compare Inkitt to the beginning of these companies. He is seeking to push his workers to work as passionately as he is about his project and his idea but without any benifit.
The benifits of this company is having a cheap breakfast in the office (trust me, I would have to sometimes go buy the groceries myself) and having a very budgeted team event.
You don't have any possibility of personal growth nor learning in this company because the goal is to just achieve the goal of the CEO and to publish as many new books (no matter how good or bad) so he's happy with the numbers. As a book lover, I never got the feeling he was ever interested in any literature he claims to have.
To top of this bad experience, the CEO already has a big and stubborn idea of everyones job and how everyone should do their job (and yes, he's very clever) but not open and not humble to listen to new criteria nor new ideas of working. He's an arrogant and unprofessional communicator- it's just a waste of time cause this is a tyranny.
In some past reviews, I see the same dilemmas as I stated above and the response from the HR (which is buddy with the CEO) is again very unprofessional and not taking any responsibility; what culture of feedback? how is dismissing ideas empowerment for co-workers? yes, we understand that it's the beginning of the company but employees are not there at your disposition to achieve the goal of the CEO. I wonder why so many people have left? And hence always hiring- cause there is no change!
