Terrible leadership - Employee Sortable Employee Review

Sortable's strength is its people. It's a young company and makes mistakes but it has always focused on bringing smart, kind people together to make things happen. You can find 1000 companies with smart people but Sortable is committed to having a team of smart people who are also kind and considerate, which makes coming to work each day enjoyable. There is a strong mythology about the earlier days when we were smaller and more fun. The old days were great but we've grown and in growing have had to get more serious. Critics of this change typically don't have a lot of work experience outside Sortable and want the dream Sortable to always be what it was. I've worked in bad places with extremely toxic cultures. Sortable is not toxic and our culture is great.

Sortable exclusively hires great people as a result when people leave (voluntarily or not) it sucks. Some strategic errors have meant more people have had to leave than I would like and each of them is missed very much. It's also meant that we start over with internal training too often. That said, that last few months have proven a new steady path with much more organizational cohesion.

Sortable makes it easy to get work done; other employees are easy to approach and work with. Although the company is growing fast, it is still easy to get in touch with senior management, and even the newest employees get input on departmental goals and OKRs each quarter. Many people at the company volunteer their time to help organize social events, and almost everyone sits down for the catered lunch at the same time, which makes it easier to get to know people, and makes the office environment more casual and stress-free.

Working in the advertising business, even indirectly, can be frustrating. Bigger players like Google and Facebook can make small changes to the way they do business that force smaller companies like Sortable to rapidly adapt or lose profitability. This has negatively affected us in the past, and will continue to be a problem, despite our best efforts. The people who stay the longest are the ones who can adapt to different roles according to their skills and the company's needs.