- Like previous reviews have stated, people seem afraid of the CEO, including members of her own executive leadership team. As a result, VPs are yes-men who do not push back on requests from the CEO even if they directly contradict the existing team strategy. VPs push these unfiltered requests directly to individual contributors who are expected to accommodate them with almost no notice. Quarterly plans can be completely derailed by an idea the CEO had in a meeting you were not involved in.
- Office politics run rampant here. Leadership constantly gives lip service to one of the company’s core values “We’re on the same team”, but I’ve legitimately never worked in an environment where that felt less true.
- Engineering processes are extremely inefficient and make it difficult to get things across the finish line. Leadership doesn’t care about this, or even seem to recognize the problem exists. The product also has tons of technical limitations that the company is unwilling to invest in fixing.
- Company strategy seems to change every other week. There’s no clear goal or vision being worked towards other than “make more money.”
- CEO micromanages day-to-day decision-making at the individual contributor level, even in domains she does not have expertise in. This stifles creativity and makes it very difficult to apply the knowledge and best practices you’ve learned throughout your career.
- “Data-driven” company with poor data infrastructure. No willingness to invest in improving data infrastructure.
- Despite packaging itself as a fast-paced, dynamic company, Beyond as a whole is incredibly resistant to change. Historical decisions and processes are shrouded in politics and any attempt to change things for the better results in unexpected controversy.
- Beyond has unlimited PTO, but also has a culture of working while on vacation and never truly unplugging from your work. People are publicly praised for working while on vacation.
