Bad culture for women - Project Manager Uplight Employee Review

-Mission-driven organization that attracts and retains super high-caliber people; I was at this company for 7.5 years in large part because of the quality of my coworkers and leaders. -Unique set of core competencies that have strong product/market fit, which is very important to be successful in sales. -Incredible priority on you as a whole human, not just you as an employee. This comes out in immense flexibility and family-first practices. If you are getting your work done, no one is going to mind when/where that work is getting done. -Very excited about the Octopus Energy transaction - I think this will be a huge plus for culture, focus, and mission, and I fully expect to see new leadership in line with Octopus' vision for Uplight. -Great opportunities for moving within functions and teams in the organization. Wonderful place to be early/mid in your career.

-You must be able to work and thrive in dynamic, shifting situations. If you're someone who wants very established processes and clear lines to work within, it's not going to be a good fit. If you get excited about the opportunity to take initiative and make a name for yourself, you'll do well.

The health insurance was fine. That's about it.

There's just no path forward here, honestly. You do the same work quarter after quarter and nobody talks about developing you or giving you new responsibilities or anything like that. I brought up wanting to learn more skills and basically got told "that's not really what we do here," which is a nice way of saying stagnation is the business model. Everyone I knew who was any good eventually left because they figured out — correctly — that staying would just be wasting years. The company seems perfectly content having people coast indefinitely, which sounds nice until you realize you're aging out of opportunities while contributing nothing new to yourself or anyone else. And honestly, the worst part is they seemed surprised when I quit, like they thought I'd just be cool perpetually treading water.