Pluspunten
Nice ICs. That's it. There's absolutely nothing else that's good about working at this dumpster fire.
Minpunten
This company is run by chickens with their heads cut off. I was laid off two months into my tenure here because leadership is so astoundingly dysfunctional and inept. Leadership, especially on my team, was throwing things at the wall in a desperate attempt to get something to stick and very little was sticking. I made it clear upon being hired that I didn't have prior industry experience; I was told that was ok, that others (including some leads) didn't either and that it would take time to learn the ins and outs of an industry that's so dense, and that I "should feel like I can take the time to learn." That was a relief, given that I received no onboarding, no product demos or training, and was thrown into the deep end of the pool on my first day and expected to start immediately cranking out work as though I had. Suddenly, we were being told that we needed to significantly ramp up work output, needed to be ok with responding to late-night messages and requests, and were in a place where we "were giving more to our jobs than our lives." And while "not everyone would be ok with that," we needed to be for the foreseeable future. I was asked if I was ok with this, and of course I wasn't, but also didn't want to lose the job I'd just started (which didn't have this expectation when I was hired) so I said yes. In the course of my work, I was repeatedly praised for what I produced, praised for how quickly I turned around urgent requests, and aside from pretty typical feedback you'd expect from someone learning the ropes, never received any significantly negative feedback or concerns. But all of a sudden, I was being told that I needed to do a better job of considering the bigger picture and purpose of my work and what questions we were hoping to answer with everything we were doing, as though this wasn't something I'd been doing in the two months I was there. Two days after this conversation, I was being told it "wasn't working out," I "wasn't a good fit," and was being let go because I'd mistakenly prioritized doing a small piece of work that had a due date much later in the future than I thought it did. This wasn't at all a big deal, nor did it jeopardize any other projects. When I attempted to press the issue and understand what in the world could've happened in two days to warrant this decision, I received no legitimate answer. Instead, I got a bunch of excuses, talking in circles, and responses that didn't at all address what I was asking. I was never put on a performance plan (nor would any PIP give an employee two days to improve). I was never told my continued employment was contingent on me figuring out in less than 48 hours how to better consider the bigger picture. What I think was really going on was that this team was stretched so thin and so burnt out that no one had any time to train me. And instead of being honest with me during the interview process and telling me that they needed someone with industry knowledge, they told me I could take the time I needed to learn and then almost instantly changed their minds. So because they decided they needed to drastically ramp up their output, which you need industry and product knowledge to do well, they quickly realized THEY made a mistake during the interview process, didn't clearly identify the experience the candidate needed to have, and then dumped me and pretended my work was the issue. Not only did they publish the work I produced for the interview project I was asked to do (before I'd even started working there and had even less industry and product knowledge), they continue to promote the work I did for them on their social media accounts weeks after laying me off. Work that is still published to their site and that they're still using today. There were multiple red flags of rampant dysfunction here that cropped up pretty soon after starting. We had an employee quit a week after starting because they couldn't handle the severe ineptitude and mismanagement. Leadership balked at a candidate who said they were looking for work/life balance (to my knowledge, they were not hired). Voicing in the politest terms possible that our tiny team had codependencies on one another, and that piling on massive projects with unrealistic timelines not based in reality during the last two months of the year when people take time off might be a problem, was apparently an extremely unacceptable thing to say. According to leadership, people being out or unavailable should not impact timelines. I took only one sick day because I was, you know, actually sick; I was straight up told that there was suspicion I wasn't actually sick and was thinking of quitting. In my entire career, I've never, ever been told something so insanely outlandish and have no idea why leadership thought this. I was baffled and deeply insulted. I suspected that certain people were abusing the remote work setup, taking days to review work that should've taken a day to get done, taking hours to reply to messages, frequently taking random days off, and becoming roadblocks to getting work over the line despite the rest of us working into evenings and nights to get our end of the work done on time. I also suspected I was having work dumped onto me from my first day that certain people just wanted off their plates, with no regard to how much knowledge I would need to have to do it well nor any interest in setting aside time to train and onboard me in my first couple of weeks. I was having to teach myself everything I knew on the fly, coupled with incorporating feedback from first drafts. If the CEO is a real person, I wouldn't know, because he never led an all-hands or communicated to the company at-large while I was there. He was an absent leader who inspired zero confidence in the company. Stay away from this joke of a company and the insanely toxic, two-faced, inept people running it.