Increasing deterioration - Anonymous employee Taphandles Employee Review

2.0
Jun 25, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice products, great designers, and great customers/industry

Cons

Increasingly toxic work environment Very questionable management (after recent changes) without any people skills No clear business strategy/direction and decisions are constantly reversed Intransparent decision making Extremely high fluctuation and constant firing of employees Lack of support in personal growth and missing recognition of good employees/work

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Taphandles Response
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We appreciate the feedback. Taphandles went through a significant turnaround between 2023 and 2025, and the changes were real and felt by everyone in the company. That work is now showing results: the business is healthy, the strategy is clear, and the team in Austin and Barcelona is doing some of the best creative and commercial work in our history. Future colleagues should know they're joining a company on the way up, not the way down. Best of luck in what's next.

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1.0
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Pros

The individual contributors that work here are amazing people and deserve the world for everything they put up with.

Cons

The leadership here is horrible. They are replying to people saying they are working on things and that is not true. It has continued to get worse rather than better. The main three people in charge would rather push blame onto previous employees or current employees than take accountability for their actions. They let people go for no reason and randomly. They have no respect for people that contribute to the company and see the employees as only numbers to be removed for cheaper staff. You could have added value for years and they would sooner see you gone than reward you for anything you did. The main operations manager "delegates" all of his work and refuses to advocate for his staff as he doesnt want to say no to the owner. He also blames everyone else before taking accountability for himself. Leadership does not communicate at all. They have destroyed the previous communication paths we set up along with most of the processes that were built out. They pretend we have no training even though the entire training has been built out for years and worked extremely well for all previous employees. Morale is at an all time low and the leadership either refuses to see it or doesnt understand how to. I would not recommend working here to anyone. The issues were not the change, or the previous management. The issues are with current leadership and the owner. If those are not fixed, this company does not get better for the employees.

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