lots of great people, fun and surprisingly resilient product, culture trending downhill. - Anonymous employee Splash Employee Review

3.0
Apr 5, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Lots of great people -top notch health benefits and PTO policy + mental health days -pay can be good (if the company decides you're indispensable) -great work life balance -fully remote friendly -D&I efforts are earnest

Cons

-Splash was the pinnacle of a hyper-culture focused startup pre-covid. In an effort to skew profitable and continue growth, some pretty radical changes really hurt the culture and left many teams in an unstable state. Not the businesses fault, but since the company had decided to remain distributed, that culture may never return. -Turnover has been very high since the pandemic, further damaging the culture. -Some egregious favorite-playing definitely happens here as tenured employees had their titles and rolls shifted to vastly different areas of the business at even more senior levels after the pandemic to accommodate them through re-orgs that made the staff level employees scratch their heads. No management was dismissed during COVID layoffs, only individual contributors, making the favorite-playing even more glaring. -Raises are most effectively obtained by threatening to leave / presenting competing offers, resulting in large pay discrepancies on certain teams depending on who is willing to play that game often. -C Leadership pushes through hires that aren't always the best fit. -Large internal push for 5 star glassdoor reviews among manager level employees and above: be mindful of this.

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1.0
Mar 20, 2024
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Pros

Overall some nice people to work with and around at the mid to lower levels of the company.

Cons

To be honest, I would have spared myself from this job if I could go back. It’s pretty clear from the moment you join that mid-level employees do 90% of the work at Splash and upper “management” just sits in meetings and pencil pushes their results. It is painfully obvious how things that are meant to be generous benefits are weaponized against you. The 2 day “ME Days” they’re really just glorified PTO you should be taking anyways, and are often over scrutinized. Want to try and change something? Don’t worry we’ll give you the illusion that you can, but really could not care less about you or your career. Execs are there to please the board. The product is subpar. All the wrong people have the loudest opinions and the majority of the companies good parts are carried by 10-20 people. Extremely cliquey probably the most clique centric job I’ve ever experienced, and you get the general feeling that most folks here are fake in their job just to survive the drone that is Splash. But there definitely are some overall toxic back-room talking type individuals here. HR is there to take notes on performance so they have a legal reason to let you go quietly, which happened dozens of times over the few years I worked here. Overall not a place I would ever step foot into again and I’d recommend you spare yourself from this one.

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