Used to have lots of promise, now has no direction - Anonymous employee Within Employee Review

2.0
Jan 19, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Actual talent there is amazing in engineering and art. Great people to work with in the engineering team and made it nice to work with people.

Cons

The upper level people have little to no direction. Basically a bunch of Hollywood people that say whatever it takes to yes man their way to the top. The engineers get pulled left and right with no direction and theres constant pressure to meet unrealistic expectations. Also people who work their butt off get fired out of no where or basically treated like garbage simply because someone is told reality.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

You get the opportunity to work on big-name brands, which looks great on a resume. Some of the people there are genuinely talented and supportive. I also received regular raises and did well in my role, which was appreciated.

Cons

If you’re remote, good luck moving up. Advancement tends to favor those in-office and often hinges on vague expectations to “grow and be challenged”—which usually translates to hustling your @ss off until you burn out. Performance reviews felt like a popularity contest, decided by pretentious kool-aid-drinking peers or managers (sometimes younger and less experienced), with little awareness of your true impact. After my final review, I realized that to truly “succeed” in their eyes, I’d have to push myself to a level that wasn’t sustainable without serious mental or physical consequences. So I made the smarter move: took a higher-paying offer where I could thrive simply by being excellent at what I do—without the pressure to conform to arbitrary standards that had little to do with real results.

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