Maybe it was like this from the beginning but this past year challenges, shows its true nature - Anonymous employee RevoU Employee Review

After multiple companies, multiple years of working, and several years of working in RevoU, It surprised me that a company so positive, so fun, and even I had mentioned it as one of the best companies I've ever been with, turned 180 degrees so quickly become one of the worst companies I've ever been with, in just 1 year. This company is managing something that's getting out of hand and then it shows the true nature of the company. First, the true nature of the company business. It was suspected that the business model was poor to begin with and that was hidden by its growth in the growth era. The management comes from marketing thus the main theme for the company is always towards marketing activation and small to none investment in R&D, products, and others. The company are unwilling to hire someone proper and unqualified employees were pushed into something that they didn't have the skill. Is this a good business approach? Second, the true nature of the management The company is managing something that is getting out of hand and now it shows the management's incapability, immature, and poor management that are present everywhere. The company went from spending lots of money in community events conferences etc and then announcing that they just don't have the money and we have to conduct lay off in no time. But then, the company announced a promotion to several employees that were close to the C level, only a month after the layoff. While the workload from the OPS staff is increasing, the stress is increasing but they decided to promote the upper management. What do you think this shows? Third, the true nature of the operations and product. The company is heavily invested in part-timers. They rely on speakers to deliver the material, and even to develop to assist the curriculum creation. They rely on practitioners to become the mentors for students, thus the product itself is based on the part-timers and it is quite hard to be standardized. If you get a good speakers, good mentor you'll be having a good time but if the speakers & mentor are busy or underperform due to their full time jobs, then you'll likely to have a poor to average experience despite paying a premium price. Thus, there's a short career path for a full time employee and there's a highly dependancy on part-timers that are starting to complaint as the workload for part-timer are increasing. It was an unpleasant experience from inside and outside. What these conditions tell you? Fourth and last, the true nature of the corporate culture Toxic positivity is your best friend in this company. Everything was sugar-coated, everything was supposed to be happy and there was no room for complaint, and asking for a critique despite their value was candor. Employees, have to agree to the decided action by management which does not involve any inputs from the operational staff despite their hobby to micro-manage each inch of your task and asking to write a report here and there that contain same insight only in a different format. What culture/behavior do you think this is?