Could not run away fast enough - Anonymous employee 1build Employee Review

1.0
Mar 8, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Very interesting problem space in a historically underserved market and community, when I joined there was lots of opportunities but now it's all ashes. - Fantastic ICs who've built a real sense of camaraderie in the face of consistent failures from leadership. - Pay was good

Cons

- Leadership consistently treated employees as disposable, which led to a "yes-men" mentality and employee burnout when they inevitably "didn't meet expectations". - Incredibly backwards approach to product development, hardly any research had gone into many product decisions that wasted time and rug pulled engineering momentum. - Culture of fear, leadership just wants "yes men" rather than build an environment where people can do their best work towards a common goal.

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1build Response
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Thank you for this feedback. We've considered it seriously and introduced some of the suggestions that you've described. Some of our guiding cultural principles are "Seek and Speak the Truth" and "Delight Customers Daily". While we were in a rapid scaling phase, it looks like we didn't do the best we could to listen to some of your recommendations around how to validate hypotheses and optimize for customer research. We have since changed our approach to enable direct engineer input into product decisions and radical transparency around how those decisions are made, backed by recorded customer feedback from dozens of interviews. This enabled our company to make rapid product investments and grow to 30,000+ happy customers. We have launched two new products that have received best-in-class user engagement, growth, and satisfaction metrics. We have also secured major partnerships with construction distributors and other software platforms. 1build is, more than ever, a fast-paced, challenging, and exciting place to grow and create something big in the construction tech industry.

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• 1build pushes its product to be better and continues to explore various possibilities it can be useful and meaningful to various groups. • Great place to work for - everyone I've interacted with has been nice, friendly, and professional. • 100% remote • Flexible PTO - working remotely, I thought I didn't need to take time off anymore but I was wrong. I've learned to take better care of myself and 1build supports my being away for a bit. • There is trust and a sense of appreciation in the (employer-employee) relationship.

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