Nice team, but toxic leadership and poor organization - Anonymous Elevate Packaging Employee Review

The people here are pretty amazing. Smart, motivated, and always willing to help. It’s a friendly, collaborative environment where you actually enjoy coming to work. Leadership has an open-door policy and they take the time to listen, which makes you feel valued and supported. The onboarding process was great, and I’ve continued to learn so much since joining. There’s room for growth, whether you want to move up, or explore a different opportunity. For a small business, the company offers pretty good pay and benefits, and personally my favorite part is that I'm working on projects that make a positive impact in the world.

Elevate is leading in a fast-growing and innovative space, and things move quickly, but our leadership team does a pretty good job of adapting and keeping everyone informed and focused.

The mission of eliminating plastic is a great one. The team doing the work is fantastic.

If the current CEO is involved in any capacity, run the other way. He actively subverts the entire team’s efforts in order to feel superior. No team member will ever be correct if their work disagrees with him in any way. You will quickly grow frustrated with trying to push forward any meaningful improvement and will then be subjected to the most combative, condescending, and demoralizing rants. He will belittle you constantly. Not limited to but including: asking if you know English, claiming you lack critical thinking, asking if you know how the tools you built work, telling you that you should be more humble - you don’t know everything, claim you get confused a lot, threaten to cut your pay in half and stick you in the warehouse, etc. Additionally, you’ll be asked to do work outside the company for his personal life. He consistently schedules time with you and fails to show up or communicate in any way, but will still hold you accountable for his transgressions. Lastly, on the admin side - keep a copy of everything, you will not be able to ask for a copy from the company at a later date, they will either not be able to find it or refuse to provide it. Do not fall prey to the promise of full time employment after starting as a contractor. He will string you along until you quit, reassuring you at every checkpoint that they are working to get you onboarded full time so you can claim health benefits.