Engine Reviews

They hired a new CTO and he ruined everything. He restructured engineering and created massive layoffs cutting entire departments. Not just once, but they've had multiple cycles of layoffs, and from what I hear, still more to come. I have many friends still working at HE and I will say company culture and morale are at an ALL TIME LOW. Everyone is afraid they'll be laid off at any time. Nobody feels valued anymore. I also keep hearing the CTO uses lots of "sports" analogies which is silly and I know annoys some people. We were hitting our financial and booking goals every single week making crazy money. HE was doing SO well. I expected a very long, successful career there, but I guess in the end the company only cares about cutting costs and not its employees. I suggest everyone keeps their resume updated as they are expendable.

Don’t let the 5 star reviews fool you. They run a Glassdoor campaign targeted at new hires cause they know they’re less likely to have been affected by the most toxic environment they’ll ever work for. During my time there I witnessed 8 executives get fired. I myself watched numerous managers and colleague leave or get let go due to the incompetence of the leadership team. CEO and HR want to mirror Netflix’s culture of talent density but have no clue how to implement it. In return you get a toxic culture of overworking high performers and then firing them when they burn out. Hence the 70% turnover rate. And no that number is not an exaggeration. If You go to the annual in person company event and look around, come back the next year(if you’re lucky to be around that long), it’s a whole new group of people cause everyone from last year has either left or gotten fired. An example of them firing great talent due to burn out. I’ve seen them give out awards to high performers at the annual company event and then fire those same people months later. It’s hilarious how much the CEO and HR team doesn’t care about their employees. Ive never seen a churn and burn factory like this one. They fire talented people so much here that they made a name for themselves in the Denver tech community. Now they’re a remote company so they can increase their talent pool and find new candidates that don’t know about their toxic work culture.