Poor Leadership / High Turnover - Anonymous employee Social Native Employee Review

1.0
18 May 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Smaller company with ability to make a direct impact. Fully remote with decent benefits.

Cons

Zero transparency from the executive team. Over the last year the all but a handful of people had left or were let go. Changes happen that throw the organization into chaos. Their strategy for letting employees go is a calendar invite out of the blue followed by a quick conversation. It was beyond cold and unprofessional. It was a punt to HR after being massively overworked. Seriously, don't take the negative reviews lightly. Most people last a couple months before leaving or being let go. If they don't, the VP or manager will leave instead. Take a look at the low reviews, they really do speak the truth. When I started I thought it must be an exaggeration, turns out it is not. The culture is about overwork and burnout. Once they drain all the work out of you they then blame you for things beyond your control. The company is toxic, just look at the fact they had to replace basically all the employees. Save yourself the pain of dealing with them. My guess is most people are polishing up their resumes.

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5.0
2 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great team and in office 4/5 days a week. The team is fairly small so there’s access to CEO and higher ups with ease. The office is in Culver City which is great

Cons

I wouldn’t call it a con but I would say it’s a place where you would have to love what you do.

1.0
5 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Interesting industry, get to work with platform partners

Cons

I went into Social Native like most current or ex employees having read the reviews and deciding to be optimistic. Once I started, I realized that the reviews had not been exaggerated and in fact, may have been holding back. I've never worked at a company where leadership is praised for putting individuals on the spot and reprimanding them in front of a group. Where employees were told to actively lie to clients under the premise that "that's just how things work". We were encouraged to hire people and have them leave their jobs for promises of emerging tech, industry knowledge and a leadership team that will show them the way just to turn around and fire them when they didn't hit certain standards within 30 days (or less). Working at Social Native is actually scary because you start to believe that these are normal operating standards of business. However, being on the other side I can tell you that this is absolutely not normal and I encourage anyone who is thinking about joining to reconsider. I hope that reading these reviews is cause for reflection of how things are run at Social Native.

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