Good - Business Analyst appreciate Employee Review

good culture and things like that

shut down, start up, risky

- The one benefit that this company had was the fact that the majority leadership were so clueless about everything that nobody really bothers you about productivity. Great WLB. - Another upside was the completely pointless and useless skip levels that the senior leadership would throw on your calendar. It was a mutually beneficial endeavor, where the leadership makes it seem like they are actually contributing, and in turn you can have forced breaks throughout your day to appease them. - Poor management of finances, ironically this was a double edged sword. Early on in the start up, there were team building events and large spending on dinners. The team essentially also had someone that acted as the personal yelp / google maps. So some of the dinner recommendations were actually impressive. - you gain knowledge about fashion and handbags + its history. Meetings were cut short because of the mid-convo interruptions from the fashion experts in the team. This made some meetings short, and we were able to break off into groups quicker. -The leadership on the tech side of the org were great managers, and they actually had the experience to back it up (design, engineering only). - Great place to resume build. The senior members of the growth, product, and all other critically non-essentials also took great advantage of this. The most likely scenario once this company folds is that you will be able to (and you will)

- The dysfunctional leadership were all friends and colleagues at a previous company they worked together. Reading the previous company's reviews on glassdoor, it seems like a pattern. - Poor management of finances, up to a point where it was criminal negligence. They were more than willing to spend money on party buses and lavish dinners, yet they were not willing to spend a dime on employee essentials. Laptops for example. - Similar to the above point, the leadership were quick to spend investor money on issues that doesn't even matter. Often times at off-sites, you would be interrupted DURING WORK DISCUSSION by a person from upper management about what to have for dinner. That being said, they were collecting large paychecks for their titles but in reality they were nothing more than a glorified ubereats. - leadership consisted of people that were too young, and had no experience in delivering anything in their past companies. This would have NOT happened in other sane teams. To put it into perspective, the experience that they have would have been at most a junior level at any other company. Unsurprisingly, the individuals that had bloated titles were friends. - Senior leadership had no idea what they wanted, roadmaps changed every because some person found something they like online. - Nepotism at the center of the company culture. Firings, hirings were based on friendships and certain political maneuvers. This was also a very common theme at the previous company that the upper management were in. - Culture of deception. The "nice leader" facade that the upper management had was indeed convincing. But became evident that they do this in order to have some sort of leverage against you in trying to appease the CEO. - Extreme lack of self awareness. The growth org would claim that it was a blameless culture, but this was not remotely the case. There was constant deflection of responsibilities and blame that went around every day.