(March 2024) Magnificent employees with some flaws at management level - EA to the C-Team Lifebit Employee Review

3.0
25 Sept 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Magnificent staff in all departments, with a real sense of teamwork and collaboration. It was easy to find someone to help guide you with a problem. Dev., Client Success and Marketing in particular were phenomenal. Promotion opportunities do abound, and the company's fully-remote 'anywhere in the world' outlook is refreshing.

Cons

Everything is urgent with totally unachievable deadlines far in excess of the usual stretch goals. Sluggish decision making can severely hamper future planning, Due to this, "work until it's done" was the expectation for staff at any level. There were an excess of meetings with most staff calendars full of internal meetings. Rarely did everyone present need to attend. The standard VC-driven focus on growth severly disrupted day-to-day functioning. Each quarterly Business Strategy Review (organised brilliantly) concluded by largely ignoring staff input to push to faster growth. Some members of the C-Suite are great, while others are somewhat - and some extremely - difficult to work with. Often, senior C-Suite took little notice of guidance from highly-experienced staff the industry and future developments, or customer requests/plans. The 'work all hours' mindset was driven from the top down, usually explicitly. The CEO is disrespectful in the extreme to everybody.

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5.0
3 Jun 2024
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Pros

manageable daily workload. different time zones to work

Cons

micro manage environment where we cannot work individually. There is no HR team to raise our concerns

1.0
12 Jun 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very good at courting investors, even with underdeveloped product. Very diligent on Glassdoor, and will probably follow behind this with a 5 star review. Very good at increasing and advertising their data pool, even if they can't efficiently operationalize it for customers.

Cons

The executive team lacks the cognitive horsepower to think of good solutions, the decisioning skills to apply them, and the organizational skills to hold things together. Like they're hemorrhaging money and don't have the corporate chops to do anything about it. Instead of fixing their culture, they'll flood Glassdoor with 5 star reviews (again). My optimistic estimate is that they get acquired for much less than the $70M they've raised

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