A company that had potential, but is being eaten up by terrible leadership - DO NOT WORK HERE! - Anonymous employee ElasticBox Employee Review

1.0
Feb 1, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- People (EXCLUDING leadership) are great, particularly the UK and Madrid offices. It is a shame they have all been treated so horribly - Product is a great concept, but with no execution or concept of business it makes no difference

Cons

- The most unprofessional company i've ever worked for with catastrophic problems particularly in the US office - Leadership are the poorest examples of leaders i've ever seen with no ownership, consistent lies which they are aware of and proud to talk about. - Startups are meant to places for culture and great team spirit - This is the complete opposite and an example of a sinking ship that could have achieved so much more - The sad thing is that this product COULD have been good, but the leaders have no business acumen or understanding of how to make a company successful, meaning it is slowly dying and has already been overlapped by competitors - This company will soon diminish and i would NEVER advise anyone to consider working here

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5.0
Apr 2, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A team of hardworking, talented, and dedicated people. Good product that solve real problems in the right market. Good benefit. New management team is proactive and is making a difference.

Cons

It's a startup, so it's not for those with unrealistic expectations. The engineering team is in Spain and the time difference means sometimes people have to stay up really late or get up really early to work together when there is an urgent issue.

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1.0
Dec 17, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Engineers - Some really skilled engineers that are really trying to build a good product, although many have since departed The Space - if they could get the product to work it could add some value. DevOps is an exciting area of innovation, that innovation just isn't happening at ElasticBox.

Cons

The founders seem to live in a parallel universe where it is OK to completely lie to employees and potential customers. I've never seen such a culture of fear and blame, where employees have no authority, but complete responsibility and the two founders each run the show independently and often contradict each other leaving the employee at a loss as to what to do. There have been multiple rounds of layoffs and multiple complaints filed against the CEO so morale is very low - with all the other great Devops companies out there, I would definitely recommend you look elsewhere. Don't make the same mistake I did

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