Ego Central - Software Engineer Pagely Employee Review

I never leave reviews. Last time I left a review was about a local diner when Yelp first started. But a former coworker pointed me to a review left recently that management called fake, and I feel compelled to offer some perspective. Pagely is not an easy place to work. It's a really tough place. Management isn't bad at their job, but not good to work for. And to dismiss someone's legitimate gripe isn't cool. So now I'm saying my piece. 1. The fact that everyone works remotely makes it challenging to collaborate. 2. Management never points the finger inward when something goes wrong. It's always an engineer's fault. 3. The worst kind of person is one who pretends everything is fine to the outside, when the insides are hurting. Management doesn't properly address many internal workflow concerns and often launches product iterations without consulting those that mattered most... the engineers. 4. The CEO spends more time on his social media than he does taking care of employee concerns. Point in case, look at his twitter feed. 5. The CEO desperately wants to be the thought leader (and leader in general) that he is not destined to be. He often quotes himself, which is one of the most overt egomaniacal things I've seen in my long career. Again, look at his twitter feed. He quotes himself nonstop and then has secondary twitter accounts that he favorites his own tweets from. He went as far as to hire an Indonesian click farm last year at one point to like his tweets... unsuccessfully. Again, I left Pagely peacefully and I'm a quiet man, not looking for trouble. But management can't call someone's heartfelt review fake. I worked with them. I know the truth. This is not the place for 'good culture.' Don't believe the posts management makes from fake accounts.