Pros
Interesting work, smart, driven colleagues.
Cons
When I started at Simpleview, the CEO was proud of never having laid off anyone. Last month he announced layoffs that included a talented 15 year Simpleview veteran because we grew 13% instead of 20%. This change in company values seems to have happened after the company took on a series of aggressive VC investments. In addition, the CEO becomes very defensive when delivering bad news and communicates it to us in a condescending, patronizing tone. We are asked to work very long hours and take on more and more work without extra pay. We were forced into taking several paycuts during the pandemic and during a recent staff meeting the CEO said “no one at Simpleview has ever been asked to take a paycut.” In addition, while recruiting sells you on the remote work options and supposedly “unlimited” PTO, the fact is PTO is not unlimited, and remote work is strongly discouraged. They seem to have their supposedly unlimited PTO policy so that no one accrues vacation time that they would have to pay out when people quit. In reality they strictly limit the amount of PTO allowed. They advertise that they allow for flexible work schedules, but in reality they deny most of these requests. Turnover is very high for these reasons and because they pay significantly below market rate for each job position (below market rate even for Tucson, which has average salaries far below national averages). The CEO likes to virtue signal he cares about diversity by doing things like including his pronouns in his email signature, but don’t be fooled. The Senior Leadership team is entirely made up of white men with the requisite single white woman in a marketing role. (For context, Tucson is 38% Latinx.) Don’t fall for the recruiting sales pitch, the reality of work at Simpleview is a far cry from the utopia sold to job applicants.
