Toxic work environment, micromanagement to the fullest - Anonymous employee Hook Employee Review

1.0
Feb 10, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Talented people are scattered throughout the company

Cons

- Management continually stripped employees of power and rest, and had two faced personalities that was infuriating and disrespectful - A lot of problems stem from senior positions skill levels feeling a lot lower than the people they are managing - Unnecessary, long meetings - Management lied about project workloads constantly and tried to blame random team members for overtime - Management made racist and sexist comments - Higher-ups have a lot of power pulling drama that create a toxic work environment - Company has a leveling system to supposedly promote fair career mobility, but the biannual/quarterly reviews (you have to rewrite these even if you do not level up) heavily depend on how close you are with higher-ups - Higher-ups in teams randomly target everyone from a certain type of profession to take the fall for their personal mistakes

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

- working with talented and kind people

Cons

- constant sprints & short deadlines - working after hours - disconnect between higher ups and teams

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