career kryptonite - Product Skupos Employee Review

2.0
Apr 9, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay, benefits for a small company Lots of lip service for progressive issues

Cons

No leadership. Lots of thrash and rearrangement. People regularly throwing others under the bus. Nepotism and face-saving are valued over performance and accountability. Your career will not advance here. No one gets promoted, far more likely to get fired or "coached out". No one gets experience, just pressured to do work that has nothing to do with their skillset ("put your jazzhands in!"). Everything is in panic mode with never-fulfilled promises about infrastructure/process later.

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Skupos Response
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We appreciate your perspective. The reality is that Skupos is a hyper-growth startup serving a two-sided market. As we onboard more customers, it is our responsibility to rapidly adapt our products and services to reach true product market fit. We recognize that this creates change in product vision and strategy that sometimes results in work that is outside of a core skill set we may have originally hired for. It also creates opportunity for those that are passionate about the company and eager to learn. We have seen product managers step into Director roles and excel, and others that have not aligned to our journey. Unfortunately, we do have to make hard decisions as it applies to these most critical roles. We appreciate your time with us, and wish you the best in your career. Posted on behalf of CTO

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