If I have to hear that AuditBoard won the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award one more time... - Analyst Optro Employee Review

1.0
Aug 2, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- You'll get really good at writing/recognizing fictional story-writing (hint hint: all the 5 star glassdoor reviews) - If you're one of the early employees, you're pretty much untouchable. You'll find that out quickly - You'll see the quote below in action EVERY. SINGLE.DAY with some select people “What happens if we invest in developing our people and they leave?” “What happens if we don’t and they stay?”

Cons

- Culture is truly top-down here meaning it's horrible - The only real innovation here is the fact that we even exist period - Soul crushing "rah-rah" meetings where you can palpably feel the eye rolls - Scattered priorities, no clear mission (outside of make as much money as possible and sales doing rather unethical things to be frank) - Unfit people in leadership - Rampant "boys club" mentality (be ready to kiss the ring if you want to get anywhere in this company) - Deceitful, veiled messaging and promises (personally was promised numerous things during recruitment - shame on me for not getting it in writing)

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Optro Response
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Thanks for taking the time to share this feedback with us. Employee satisfaction is of the utmost importance to us and we take this type of feedback very seriously. We encourage you to set up time with the HR team to learn more about what specifically is creating a negative experience for you and determine next steps. We are focused on communication and creating an honest and transparent environment. We recently launched and shared the results of two internal surveys: Employee Engagement and Transparency & Communication. From these, we've identified, executed, and are in progress of executing several additional programmatic action items to improve AuditBoard to be a great place to work on a continuous basis through learning, communication, actioning and constant listening / collection of feedback. We look forward to continuing to improve.

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