ShotFlow is run by a team that has no business or experience leading a company, and they consistently make poor decisions that hurt employees as a result. The company is unable to pay employees on time, despite management assuring us that there are no financial troubles. A few days late is fine, but sometimes we're left struggling to pay our bills at the end of the month. Sexual harassment is a regular occurrence over Slack. I don't feel comfortable opening up Slack in the morning or interacting with my coworkers. The employee responsible is a close, old friend of the CEO, who has since retired and is now on the BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Nepotism is rampant and seems to be the dominant hiring strategy. The CEO's personal friends get promotions and free reign, meanwhile the lifeblood of the company has to fear for their future. These decisions aren't based on performance. This is no meritocracy. Favoritism is the name of the game. Management treats employees with a distinct lack of respect. One employee left without notice after being needlessly berated by upper management. This lack of respect extends to management belittling both clients and employees behind their backs. They prefer to hire contractors both locally and internationally, as it’s easier to fire a contractor without cause. This has come into play multiple times. Note that full time employees aren’t exempt from being dropped without a moment’s warning or any negative feedback, however. They fired their head of sales that doubled their revenue and brought life to a stagnant company without cause. The entire QA team was fired without any plan or cause, the reason being that they intend to automate their testing. This came with no warning and no automated testing in place; in fact, conversations were underway about raises and upskilling the QA team the same week that the whole team was fired. Anyone that knows anything about software knows that this isn't how you do it. Management have now asked the whole company to do manual QA testing. Isn't that why we had testers before? Decisions like the above show the lack leadership within the development team, which is run like a boutique software company from the ‘00s. I fear for the quality of our product.
