No job security, lack of direction and mismanagement from leadership - Organizer NationBuilder Employee Review

1.0
Aug 29, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Very cool product! The company has a new office in LA and there's a great snack room and coffee maker.

Cons

Leadership has no management experience and the employees suffer because of this. During the course of time I was there I saw the management hire employees, move them across the country, get them into leases in expensive LA apartments, and not warm them that that they had an additional interview and could be fired after their 3 week training. There are a lot of people who quit jobs, moved to LA and signed leases, only to be fired by the CEO after 3 weeks. This is insane and if felt almost dirty working there and seeing this going on. While I was there company moved into a massive new office in a higher end building and likely spent millions on renovating it, just to fire at least 50 people in one day a few weeks after moving because of financials reasons. Now the new office sits at least 75% empty. That's just one example of the type of mismanagement that goes on (on a smaller level) everyday. The mismanagement, along with the cult-like mandatory staff retreats, would make any creepy, third-world dictator from the 70's proud. My advice would be to avoid the company. It's only a few years old and there are already more ex-employees than current employees. They also seems to fire people without regard for their performance so there is really no way to feel secure in your job.

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