BetterUp reviews

ALEXI & EDDIE. BetterUp has the potential to be an amazing company with great products but the founders can't make the right decision to step down. They make decision without understanding by who and how the work is actually done. We had layoffs and now the people left behind are having to become subject matter experts over nights while no executives were laid off. The layoff is being used as a masked threat to get people to do two jobs for the price of one. A lavish trips is still planned for the 150 person leadership team where there will be lots of book readings and discussions - but no action. Seems tackless after terminating 100 people just 2 weeks before this planned trip. Management meetings are mostly mindset readings or role playing exercises. We are only spoken at but no discussion including us when it comes to the actual business. All hands are painful for most people to get through and is just Alexi throwing a fit and his fanboy firing him up. Women and minorities in the company are wordless, powerless figureheads for the website. CEO vowed BU would never have a D&I Officer. Strange coming from a straight white male that loves to use diversity and inclusion when speaking to media. After terminating an employee Alexi felt the need to publicly make fun of this person's work to the entire company. Very immature all around. I can't imagine if he ever has to answer to shareholders.

Ryan Sonnek, CTO and current head of R&D, is psychologically abusive. He’s not straight-forward with what he wants and then blows up at people when they can’t understand his cryptic communication. He never apologizes, and appears cheerful. It’s like gas-lighting. It’s affecting a lot of people’s mental health across several teams and creating bottlenecks.