Poor business decisions leading to mistreatment of high quality employees - Anonymous employee Lily AI Employee Review

One of the cofounders creates private Slack channels and calendar events to pressure employees into attending weekend and late night meetings. This would be understandable if the employees asked to work weekends and late nights were VPs or higher, but they are low leveled IC's who have not had a raise in over a year. There is no work-life balance or empathy despite what the company website says. I have worked for many startups and none of them had such extreme working hours. There are several current employees who are waiting for the economy to improve so they can leave this company for a better opportunity. Current employees are all compassionate people who deserve better, they're highly intelligent as well. Leadership cannot get out of their own way. They keep trying to cover multiple roles within the company themselves to save money. Employees tell them what is needed and they are still ignored, leadership insists they know what's best when the majority of the time, they don't understand the domain the ICs work in and mislead employees as a result. Employees become overworked and exhausted because leadership eventually goes in the direction the ICs originally recommended after months of trial and error. A very slow moving startup without agility but full of ego. Business seems to be permanently running on empty despite new rounds of funding and a substantial number of customers. Most departments have been short staffed for years and although employees beg for more teammates to help reduce their workload, they are told there is no money to hire more employees. Don't fall for promises of becoming a people leader if you decide to be employed at this company. They likely will not hire you a team as promised and you will become an IC with an inflated job title. No career growth because they are perpetually in survival mode. Don't fall for any promises of promotions or salary increases. They have not done a salary increase for over 12 months now.