Bitly reviews

• Career pathing was nonexistent, leaving employees stuck with no growth opportunities and sabotaging their careers. • Heavy meeting culture left little time for focused work. • DEI efforts often felt more performative than authentic. • Upper management felt detached from day-to-day realities. • Many choices created unnecessary duplicated work, and significant completed work was discarded entirely. Feedback from those doing the work often went unheard. • Performance reviews were inaccurate and lacked a fair dispute process, which was damaging and demoralizing. • HR showed little empathy and was even hostile at times. • A major acquisition did not bring stability and instead contributed to layoffs, further damaging morale. • The product felt behind the competition, which made it harder to feel confident in the company’s direction.

- Company reputation was thrashed by ads strategy, leadership doesn't care as long as ad dollars are coming in - New CEO has no vision beyond "put AI in everything" - Two large rounds of layoffs, scrambling to figure out how to keep functioning with removal of key employees - Threats and hostility towards remaining ICs - Favoritism is rampant, only certain people are celebrated while the rest are overworked and overlooked - Managers don't serve employees, they just drop demands from leadership on us - Product is way behind competitors as leadership puts us to work on things customers hate instead of things our competitors have done for years - Toxic positivity in all hands meetings is cringy, insulting, lacking transparency