After the Merge with Ginger, It All went downhill. - Anonymous employee Headspace Employee Review

After Headspace "merged" with Ginger, Ginger's leadership took over mostly all aspects of the Headspace brand and company. And that's where it all started going down hill. Enormous turnover rates (mostly women and headspace leaders leaving). Headspace's mission is now more profit driven and making an equitable IPO. They no longer care for it's members and it's employees. Ginger's application is monolithic and outdated. During the unification process, most tech leaders decide on going with the vendor / solution to keep that no one has either heard about or are some other startup(s) that probably line their own pockets. From my experience after the merger, I found to realize that there were shady kick back deals that were made, and most of the tech leadership that took over are former silicon valley types with failed start ups who are not qualified at all to do their jobs - they obviously got the job through some connection or hook up. So they think they know what they're doing but are completely mis-interpreting things. And when their own staff is telling them they're not abiding by best practice, it becomes ignored and tempers flail - dictatorship. Headspace before the merge was also known as a pretty woke company, but now there's a sense of faux/fake wokeness. The CEO will sometimes slip up and will end up apologizing for it later. There have been many times where I felt like my work environment was hostile and I was psychologically unsafe to voice my opinions, leaders lost their temper in front of everyone and demanded ridiculous requests that goes against industry best practices, violating compliance. Even the compliance teams are incompetent because they were team Ginger. I repeat, do NOT work here unless you want to work for incompetent leadership who are disorganized, profit driven, do not communicate with their team or others - especially in decision making (and when they do, they don't take your opinions and expertise seriously), who are making it up as they go, who DO NOT TRUST their own team and their expertise and you want to work in a hostile environment. - Gaslighting - Brightsizing - Dictatorship - Disorganized - Incompetent leaders who are "faking it" - Shady side deals and kick backs, juggling multiple jobs at once. The list of cons go on forever.