Truthful Review - employee experience is the lowest priority - Anonymous employee Motive Employee Review

1.0
Dec 12, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is very competitive and full time remote is great.

Cons

If you are wondering why glassdoor has decent reviews. It’s because most of the workforce are in Pakistan and are encouraged to write good reviews. If you don’t believe the bad reviews I encourage you to find former employees and for honest thoughts. My experience is that the company decisions are made prematurely and the workhorses get blamed if the outcome isn’t ideal. Decision makers don’t look at themselves and accept they are responsible for setting a path to succeed. Another review called it “masculine” and I would agree in the worst way. I have worked at other bad places but motive takes the cake. Because of my experience I kept in touch with former colleagues and discovered their layoff not-surprisingly didn’t include any of the “talkers” within the company that only spoke a good game and never produced. Every toxic behavior is excused as due to a hyper growth mode. I've worked at startups most of my career and this type of behavior is not due to a priority on growth. The problem here is leadership has 1 priority and that is revenue. The leadership does not understand that a positive work environment will aid in driving revenue. Instead they look at employees as hardware upgrades. If you somehow end up at Motive and feel things are fishy and want to “give it a chance”. Do NOT stay and start looking elsewhere.

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Cons

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Pros

Strong people and culture. Genuinely good colleagues, a collaborative environment, and a place where talented people want to do good work. After many years here, the quality of the people is the thing I'd point to first. Real mission and real product. The work matters — building technology that has a tangible safety impact in the physical world. That gives the work a sense of purpose that's hard to find elsewhere.

Cons

Leadership and organizational clarity could be stronger. As the company has grown, clearer direction, more consistent decision-making, and steadier organizational structure would help people do their best work. Uncertainty. Periods of structural and strategic change can create a sense of instability that's tiring over time, even for people who are otherwise very committed to the company.

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