Just don't - Robotics Engineer Hypergiant Employee Review

I was one of the original team members, a month after the company started myself and some other employees got pulled into a lawsuit with a previous company cause they hated the CEO, so yeah getting personally sued by a multi-billion dollar corp for joining a company was a con. Worked on projects for a year on a shoestring budget, told we would get a better budget to work on some good R&D but never happened. We never were able to work on any products that could be licensed or sold to clients, always trying to do ad-hoc projects for clients. Sales team was constantly cycled. Saw good people treated poorly, and others come and go and then left myself for a better opportunity. Another year later I get a call with another offer from the CEO, sounds too good to be true but others insisted things had changed and everything was roses (and too a degree they were since there was a budget and team now) so I decided to give it another shot back there. Nothing but confusion and waste is all I can describe the second run. The internal projects weren't a good fit for the teams and they were wasting more money on videos than the budgets to build the thing the video was supposed to demonstrate. More people leaving as I was walking back in, some by choice others not (like more sales people getting cycled) but it wasn't long since 3 months later got laid off along with all the R&D and others, no real explanation other than no money, no apology. Then was asked to sign a document to get a pity severance that was really a gag order (not gonna happen). Shame on me for falling the second time, but it was people I had worked with / for during the last 5 years, so honestly didn't expect it. There is no secret sauce, there is no product, there is no money, just Hype. It wasn't because there wasn't talent there but because the talent couldn't do their thing and like a hyper giant start its quick to burn out and full of gas.