Dissapointing, despite the promise - Anonymous employee Pattern (NY) Employee Review

For myself & many others, we came to Pattern lured by the creativity of Gin Lane the anti-millennial work culture Anne Helen Petersen wrote of, and the promise of working at one of the first trailblazers of the acquisition model. At this point all of that has been stripped away and all you have is an overworked skeleton team, brands with declining brand value and an inexperienced, directionless leadership team with no regard for their employees. Pattern has become a shell of the promise it initially held. In the time I've been there I've seen several turnovers of team members— both from layoffs without good reason and brilliant people leaving due to a lack of opportunities and direction at Pattern. By far the biggest issue here is that the leadership team simply has no idea what they’re doing — they make decisions with no regard for people and no rationality. They’ve had multiple rounds of layoffs, and despite their efforts to paint them as “empathetic, considerate” decision making they made decisions that benefited them and only them — laying off an expecting father only weeks after finalizing paternity leave, 6 weeks of notice, 2 weeks of severance rather than the reverse, wave after wave of layoffs to destroy morale, blindsiding department heads with 1 week of notice, and using the layoffs to quell questions about why it’s been over 18 months since the last round of performance reviews. Rather than looking inward to recognize the issues they’re responsible for, the founders continue to try externalize the issues— focusing on industry awards and AdAge articles, laying off employees rather than providing feedback, bringing in countless external resources, and even writing up a slew of 5 star Glassdoor reviews to refute employees who felt voiceless within Pattern.