Wizehire Reviews

Before I got laid off, there were 2 other layoff rounds in 2023. In the all-hand meetings after those layoffs, leadership was pretty vocal about how little they cared about the bad Glassdoor reviews. On a personal level, I think the leaders are mostly good people with good intentions. Professionally, the big and small decisions leadership has made have been poor. And I don’t think they truly know how to lead a company at the growth stage. CEO made some big bets on expanding that are not performing well. I have to imagine VC money/pressure is playing a big role in this downward spiral. They've hired leadership with inflated salaries that are unfortunately not the right fit. If a leader hasn’t ever done the work, having productive conversations with them about new ideas and how to execute them is impossible. My experience working here has taught me what type of company and leaders I don’t want to work for. There was little room for growth, preference for external hires over internal promotions, unclear expectations, career pathing took forever to roll out, no merit increases, extreme favoritism, and no alignment. Wizehire's core offering is a hiring platform that helps SMBs hire better and faster - yet their hiring process was terrible! It took almost 3 months to go from from initial interview to offer letter. I should have taken that as a red flag.

This was by far the worst company I have ever worked for. They prioritized process over outcomes to the detriment of customers. Departments actively worked against each other and didn’t act on the shared company vision, everyone was out for themselves to make their jobs easier while shifting the burden to other departments. There was no collaboration whatsoever, coworkers were rude and unhelpful (and at times it genuinely felt like bullying), and suggestions for improvement or change made by the employees to upper management were met with judgement and punishment by making your job harder if you dared to question the status quo. When complaints were made to HR they were blatantly dismissive and honestly, unprofessional. A direct quote I received when I asked for a meeting with an HR rep was “this is a waste of my time because I can’t help you.” Leadership was micro managy and creativity was repeatedly stifled. I didn’t even make it a year here before realizing this was an incredibly toxic work environment and that no job was worth my sanity or self respect.