One of the most toxic work environments I have seen - Product & Engineering Team project44 Employee Review

1.0
15 Mar 2023
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Pros

There are some good people at the company though many are leaving

Cons

project44 has the most dysfunctional and toxic work culture I have ever seen. It's the perfect storm of issues... *The company's success is built on a sales and marketing machine, but the sales team sells products that don't exist. This means product/eng are always playing catch up, putting out fires, and working on customer commits. *Leadership is as political as it gets. You go further rubbing elbows vs your quality of work. The culture has gotten worse in the past year after new senior leaders were brought in to run operations. The changes seemed good at first, but expensive meetings and poor new processes are doing real damage. The trend is clear in the Glassdoor reviews. *Team members are regularly berated in large company meetings. This kind of behavior led to high performers leaving. Executives are arrogant and make poor decisions for short term individual gain vs success of the company and customers. The execs that do care get sidelined. People joke openly about how toxic the work environment is and it's an open secret many will be leaving soon. The company stopped caring about its people a long time ago. They brought on questionable C-level leaders who look good on paper and perform well in meetings, but can't run tech companies. It's sad to see a company with this potential decline so much. I would not recommend working at project44 to anyone. I'll be putting in notice in the next month and I know many of my coworkers will too.

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Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear about your team member experience, it is not the one we strive to deliver. As a current team member, we ask that you reach out to your HRBP or department leader to address your concerns in real-time. We would like the chance to partner together to address your feedback.

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5.0
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Pros

project44 is genuinely tackling some of the hardest problems in logistics and the company leans into that complexity rather than hiding from it. The AI investment is real and goes beyond the product roadmap. project44 is actively equipping employees with tools like Claude, Cursor, etc. to work smarter day-to-day, and there is a clear commitment to building individual AI fluency across the organization and not just in engineering or product, but at every level. You will work alongside sharp people who care about getting it right, and leadership is willing to move fast when the opportunity is clear. If you want to be at the intersection of AI and enterprise software that actually matters to the global economy, this is the right place.

Cons

The pace is fast and priorities can shift quickly, which is energizing if you are adaptable but can be challenging if you prefer highly structured environments. Cross-functional alignment sometimes lags behind the speed of execution.

5.0
3 Jun 2026
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Pros

I've been in People leadership long enough to know the difference between a company that talks about its values and one that actually uses them to make decisions. p44 is the latter, not perfectly, but genuinely. The AI investment here is real: we've put serious resources into training every team member on Claude and AI tools, and I've watched people across functions change how they work because of it. The leadership team is sharp, direct, and willing to be challenged. There's a high-ownership culture that attracts people who want to actually move things, not just manage process. And the market moment is real: supply chain visibility powered by AI is where the industry is going, and we're not chasing it, we're building it.

Cons

The pace and the ambiguity are features for some people and dealbreakers for others, and I don't think we're always honest enough about that upfront. This is a company that moves fast, changes direction when it needs to, and expects you to figure things out with incomplete information. If you need a lot of structure to do your best work, this may not be the right fit. We've also been through some difficult chapters over the last few years, headcount reductions that were necessary but painful, and rebuilding trust after those moments takes time and consistency. We're in a new phase now and the possibilities are endless.

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