BetterUp reviews

We're living in the past as the company goes no where. Everyone knows it and talks about it openly behind the founders backs. Disney is the only thing holding up this shell of a company. Sadly, the equity all the employees have is near worthless and won't ever return to the last value. The company perfectly engineered for a 2021 world where every enterprise believed unlimited budgets, remote work forever, and unlocking human potential through $400/hour Zoom coaching sessions was the future of business. Unfortunately, the market shifted from inspirational wellness narratives to “show me the operational ROI immediately!" and it turns out human coaching businesses don’t scale like software. AI can now generate leadership advice infinitely cheaper, and CFOs are cutting transformational resilience journeys before they cut systems actually tied to revenue, compliance, or execution. So now BetterUp is stuck trying to convince the market it’s simultaneously a coaching company, an AI company, a leadership platform, a transformation platform, and probably a moonshot consciousness layer for enterprise humanity.

This will fall on deaf ears because Alexi and Eddie (the co-founders) have made excuses about bad reviews. "You either love us or hate us, there is no inbetween" was something said at a company meeting. The leadership team is directionless and truly unaware of the work that so many ICs and middle management do. They spout out the mission to extremely influential people but fail to implement it inside their own company. They lead with fear, everyone is aware that there are layoffs that happen every Februrary that are framed as a "reorg" or "restructure" - but it happens EVERY single February. Not to mention the lack of diversity - look at the C-suite and the VPs - the lack of representation for a company is wild. Again, not something they care about in any way. This is a psychologically unsafe place to work, that cares very little for the humans who actually make the company work. The leadership team is despicible and the board should truly do a complete overhaul if they want this company to be anything more than where Brene Brown's company went.