Stay as far away as you can - Anonymous employee Goldbelly Employee Review

1.0
Oct 1, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get free food which you don’t realize you’re eating to distract from the emotional stress of being at this company

Cons

This was a painfully toxic environment with absolutely zero work life balance you’ll be treated like garbage yet expected to complete tasks in limited time frames, Vanessa and Joe have no respect for their employees’ time, effort, interests, and care more about becoming famous on social media than the well being of the people who are responsible for keeping their company a float. Also, half these positive reviews are fake to balance out the horrendous ones because the company doesn’t want people applying to see how former staffers actually feel about working there. Stay away and save yourself

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Cons

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