Still Reeling - Anonymous employee Keela Employee Review

2.0
6 Jun 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There is an insanely talented and diverse group of people working at Keela. When the work days are good, they are great. You'll work with some people that will help shape your career and trajectory. Most people at the company care are extremely passionate about the product and care deeply about it's users. There is room for advancement, however there is always a tradeoff...

Cons

The burden of the overall success of the business will be placed on your shoulders. There is an immense culture of blame and an overall lack of accountability among leadership for their business decisions, which the employees are forced to adapt to. To compensate, they will micromanage your daily work and insert themselves into your meetings. They'll scrutinize your calendar and accuse you of time theft if they think you're not working hard enough (or as they say "consistently going above and beyond the job title" without compensation). If you put up any boundaries or advocate for work-life balance, you'll slowly be ostracized. You are expected to be available 24/7 and every task is treated as urgent, even when it's not. If you don't agree with all of the values or direction of the business, you are encouraged to leave. While agility is to be expected at a tech startup, prepare to pour all your effort into a project that quickly gets scrapped because leadership decided to pursue it on a whim without proper research and consultation. Your opinion and insight which stems from your daily work and experience will be routinely dismissed. While the people are great, the culture has taken a nosedive. So many of the people who made the culture great left on their own accord or were let go from the company. Now, every meeting or interaction you have with a coworker is laced with an unspoken tension. This has created a culture of mistrust and secrecy, which makes the day-to-day unbearable. All of this has resulted in a toxic and psychologically unsafe work environment.

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