Fraud, Con - Anonymous employee OSDC Employee Review

How this company is able to continue to operate is beyond comprehension. The problem lies directly in the incompetence of senior management. They brought in a fresh group of seasoned people and they were able to get the product out the door by brute force. And a decent product. But the fault of management (Dr. Adeboyejo Oni) is that they wanted a product to be built that has no revenue potential to sustain the company. When this is brought up or other ideas to bring in revenue is met with anger (with yelling). When you try to do what would be right for the product or company is met with anger and he will put you in your place. The CEO is rarely on promise, is constantly late for meetings or never shows up. This is worth noting again. He rarely shows up for meeting and is rarely on time. He travels to Africa continuously to raise funds from people who are not told the true story. The “CFO” (Tunde) has no financial experience and cannot get reality into the head of the CEO. CFO is more concerned about micro-management. If you question anything, they gang up to get you fired. It’s all about loyalty and repeating the CEO mantra. Bring any of that into question, you may as well quit before they make your life a living hell. CEO rejects any sensible approach to business. They are both violate the fiduciary responsibility of their roles to their investors and outright lies and manipulate projections to everyone. CEO rapidly changes direction to a point you just do not know what to expect. The only chance this company has would be to replace senior management immediately, but it is just too late (will never happen since he is also the Chairman) to milk more money out of the current group of foreign investors with the altruistic dream of helping foreign students go to college in the US. If they had real institutional investors, the CEO and CFO would have been fired years ago. CEO tries to say it is a 7 year startup but tries to operate the company as a large corporation with layer of department heads and complicated organization charts. CEO does not want to hear bad news, just good news. He gets upset and defensive when a dose of reality is mentioned. Everyone is just waiting till the lights are turned off or for a job. They have missed paying employees on several occasions in the last year. Most recent was two pay periods on two separate occasions. CEO has told the staff that if they “cannot handle not getting paid, that they should quit” (direct quote). Regularly does not pay contractors and does not inform the people managing the contractors that this happened. They did not pay employee 401k payments for over 3 months in 2017 and did not tell anyone. It was not until an employee logged into their account when it was discovered that their payroll deductions were not being sent to the plan. How is this not illegal? And if that was not enough, employees received letters that their health insurance was cancelled with no notification from management! How can anyone allow that to happen? If the company is still operating past 2017, that would be a great surprise. Employees are leaving for good reason. The ones that stuck around are not experienced enough to get a job elsewhere. To go into work each day not knowing if senior management will blame you for their shortcoming and fire you with no severance (yes, they have done that). To go into work each day to find out from contractors will not do business with the company ever again because they did not get paid, get paid months late, or short pay them. To go into work each day and cannot get your work done because contractors and vendors that you rely on have not been paid. To go into work and your AWS account has been disabled for non-payment. As one sub-contract put it, the CEO is just plain flaky, incompetent or an idiot. Just don’t interview. Seriously, do not do it. Any promises from the CEO is just a con job and if you believe it, then you have no one else to blame but yourself. If you do, ask the hard questions but keep in mind that the answers are all BS. If you are a potential contractor, they will try to negotiate a pay later scheme that will never occur. If you are an investor, you may as well toss cash out the window, you have a better chance to have some of it blow back to you.