Sad Story - Anonymous employee Ekos Employee Review

The pros list is short because it’s hard to think of any when you have zero job security in almost any position within the company. Sure ekos was a fun place to work (in the beginning). They’ve got the snacks, beer, a cool office, and unlimited PTO. All of the things that are exciting to a new employee. However, none of that matters if you can’t keep the lights on. There is no accountability or structure. The sentiment when I joined the company was our customers weren’t very happy with our product and the sentiment when I left two years later was our customers weren’t happy with our product. ( now just charge 3x more for it) Ekos’s inability to adapt and act on feedback, mixed in with a total lack of accountability and structure, sprinkled with a few bad hires in upper leadership, has lead to a perfect storm that many people (including their competitors) don’t see them navigating through. Unfortunately they have been laying groups people off every couple of months for the last year and we didn’t change anything to prevent it. I remember when we had to layoff our first round of people we told the company it was a budget issue but then we turn around and cater a $2k lunch for the meeting we held to inform everyone of the layoffs… We had multiple entry level employees with their own brex credit cards running around buying stuff. We also purchased electric standing desks for the whole office that probably cost around $75k+ as we continue to laid people off. Now entire departments are empty but hey, the desks look great.