So you know the usual expectation of start-ups these days. As a team member, you're expected to find the most efficient ways to do things. Creativity is encouraged at all stages, and everything is all disorganized and liable to change suddenly. This is all in the expectation that the company is still trying to find its operational identity, and is naturally concerned about reaching targets that help it gain funding so it can scale, attract financing, scale up again, and so forth.
With a lot of companies, this system, while a bit short-sighted, is treated humanely and with some measure of trust and dignity.
NOT WITH TRIDGE.
When I got into the advanced stages of talks to join Tridge, I did a little research that led me here. At the time, negative reviews weren't as high in number as they are now, but the ones that existed were still quite alarming. I decided to keep going on because I liked the lies hiring managers were selling to me, and I thought "well even the best companies get negative reviews from disgruntled employees. So far as I work hard, I'll be fine".
I was wrong.
I quit a high-paying job, (which came with some bridges getting burnt as they really didn't want me to leave), said my goodbyes, and came to Tridge to help build the future of agricultural trading.
Sigh.
To this day, it's still the worst mistake I ever made.
Immediately, I realized I had traded a good career job for a hellhole. This company was so toxic that after the first two months, I began to have serious anxiety going in to work every day.
My set working times were 8AM to 6PM, but I would end up working from 6AM to 9PM just to try and meet unrealistic deadlines. Weekends were lost to work also. None of it helped, and none of it was appreciated.
And forget about advancement. After a year or two, they'll just change your title to some other phrase that stands for slave in their heads and bump your already puny salary by 2%. You never grow beyond that. They run on this system where the higher-ups were seen as some untouchable king that everyone had to bow to and obey in all cases - and they loved it too.
Korean managers would sit in an office and march out unrealistic orders to managers working in various countries with rules and conditions that these managers have no clue about.
They have no interest in setting up genuine systems for business in any of the countries they are in and you get no support from the company when pursuing leads. Rather, you get judged by this small community of people thousands of miles away and condemned daily for not meeting unrealistic targets based on assumptions that were obviously arrived at through guesswork.
Whatever promises they make during the job application process are thrown away the minute you come in. Your job from day 1 is to find shifty ways to sell terrible deals to your market while they make you take all the heat from your contacts and bungle everything up from their end. You'll also have to take the heat when it all falls apart due to their inexperience and arrogance.
I was always scared for my job security. People and entire offices were fired every day. Some for the most insane reasons. One person was fired because they disagreed (I kid you not!) with a higher-up in private and pointed out a flaw in his argument that he couldn't rebuff (They thrive on having the last word and feeling like they've put you in your place, so you're expected to always allow them do so even when they're wrong). The funniest bit about this particular story is that after firing this person, they immediately implemented changes to fix the flaw he pointed out. That alone tells you all you need to know.
I'm so glad I quit and got out of that place.
Please don't fall victim as I did. Do not ignore the negative reviews, they don't even do any real justice to the true experience. It is much worse there.
