Good business model, subpar execution - Anonymous employee Scoutmob Employee Review

4.0
Jan 21, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Strong culture and values. Entire team was committed to the mission and highly engaged in the company's objectives. Good talent especially on the design side of the house. Very strong branding.

Cons

Decisions were made extremely slowly. Data played almost no role in debates. Hierarchical decision making and given founder personalities, took way too long to respond to obvious business challenges.

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hip office and team members

Cons

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2.0
Oct 20, 2021
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Pros

There are some amazing people I worked with during my time here I still keep in contact with. These people became my friends and network which landed me the position I am in today. If they did one thing well, they hired some decent people. Cool space, snacks in the kitchen, fun office events. The Halloween party was cool. Curatied some great vendors for Shoppe.

Cons

It's amazing that both the founders left after the big layoffs. One continues to "help" start-ups and has said at a talk "he likes to help begin journies, not end them". It is amazing now that this person runs a very trendy, waitlisted "rent a desk" space a la WeWork while offering "consultation". Very clique-heavy space. Oh, you shop at Madewell? Instantly ostracized. There was a hierarchy of who was at the top and who was not. If you were not, you sadly were more likely to be affected by the layoffs. No clear direction of work, just entering in images and text, emailing makers for Shoppe, and having many pointless meetings. Yes, there was "flexible" PTO but you had to be on call no matter what. It was impossible to get a full week off with no work. On top of that, the majority of us supplied our own laptops and accessories.

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