Good work culture, but needs more transparency - Software Engineer Shipium Employee Review

The people, the leaders, and the product. It's a tough market in a volatile industry, but we're growing because our product is good and our people are great at all levels. The sheer breadth of cumulative knowledge everyone brings is beyond impressive.

Startup life. Juggling flexibility and process, prioritization and 100 competing requests. Not everyone can be cut out for it, but you'd be hard pressed to find a better crew to spend your work time with.

1. The core IT teams are highly talented, collaborative, and dedicated. 2. Prior to structural leadership changes, the company had a strong, healthy culture of open technical discussion.

1. Leadership & Culture: A restructuring shifted reporting lines under a new leadership for Engineering, which fundamentally altered the culture for the worse. Management shifted to a "my way or the highway" mentality. Honest, constructive pushback on ownership and architecture is met with systematic sidelining. 2. Sidelining & Exclusion: Rather than managing transparently, leadership used promotions and further re-orgs to isolate managers—purposely excluding targeted leaders from critical technical sessions and rendering 1:1 meetings entirely useless and devoid of feedback. 3. Ethics & Lack of Empathy: The most alarming aspect of the culture is how vulnerable employees are treated. The leadership has developed a model that sidelines people of color.