A once excellent company that is tanking hard and fast - Anonymous employee Relias Employee Review

2.0
12 May 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The individual contributors on my team were excellent and, for many years, the quality of coworkers was high. benefits are decent. The stated mission is great and customers are amazing organizations. Remote work was good.

Cons

Leadership has lost the plot. In particular, all things HR are handled with toxic levels of secrecy and incompetence stemming from the top. The return-to-office debacle was the perfect example of how poor handling of a situation spawned low morale, confusion, and resentment. Recent multiple rounds of layoffs were terribly communicated (or not at all), so the rumor mills ran rampant. It took days to figure out exactly who had been cut and nothing was communicated about who was taking over their work. Many truly excellent Directors, Managers, and ICs were laid off while many that remained as well as leadership-level folks have toxic personalities, are all show and no substance, or are completely incompetent. The core values sound great, but are no longer lived up to, with "Healthy Debate" being the most laughable one given how scared people are to speak up. Those, at all levels, who do raise concerns or have opinions contrary to leadership are quickly dispatched. Yes-men and yes-women are the ones that remain. New initiatives are constantly announced with great hype, teams work on them above and beyond their regular work, and then they quietly fade away, never having been truly implemented or utilized. Then the cycle starts again.

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5.0
18 Apr 2026
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Pros

Amazing corporate culture Leadership listened to engineering on tools, technology stack, etc Actual product ownership, including necessary input and control (instead of being told you own a product and then not given the necessary access or tools to maintain it)

Cons

Hiring process involved psychological screening with a lot of implicit bias, almost like an IQ test. On the plus side, I've been told they discontinued its use after that was pointed out.

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2.0
23 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some of the peers met.

Cons

You have to be a "yes" person. It is not about your productivity or tenure. The organization celebrates the money-makers. They romanticize a false sense of community. They celebrate the coffee shop with a zombie like fixation. It doesn't detract from the underlying problems of management being out of touch with employees. Their inability to read the room has been present for a while. They failed to see during Covid that it takes more than food, drink and "community" when the fact of the matter was that it only showed lack of trust in their employees. Team meetings consist of a manager who is incapable of reigning in meetings that devolve into nonsense and wasted time. Obvious bias exists as there are clear favorites on the team, and their ideas are more readily accepted and heard. Comments as to appearance lead to obvious preference and isolation of other team members. Now that DEI is thing of the past and everyone is trying to navigate it smoothly, Relias proceeds to post the whitest President’s Club photo ever. It’s completely tone-deaf. They continue to make decisions that may seem to make sense at the top but have no relevance or need when it comes to employees.

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