If you didn't have issues with the company, good on you, but there are many who did. This reviewer is one of them.
It was difficult to get any productive time in at your own desk. It's preferred have to be in the conference rooms because there's usually a lot of background noise with the pool table and coffee conversations in a small office.
There's a lot of peer-pressure to do non-work activities beyond your own comfort zone to the point where you're quietly shunned by management if you don't participate. There was also very little regard for the health of employees, who would travel and come into the office with COVID and during the high-transmission levels of the pandemic.
Very high turnover, not including the recent layoffs. This is to be expected because they will train people, but they have no incentive to keep them (can't even provide something as basic as providing low-mid level market pay). For example, the app-builder certification that they had nearly everyone get has a average earning of $97,000+. Most of the pay within the company is way below this base. Even the benefits are sub-par at best. If you have previous experience but you weren't seen as "useful and able to exploit," they will casually forget what experience you have and just ignore you, but try to make up for it by saying they didn't know.
In general, management was very skittish about certain people leaving, sometimes forcing people to leave before their 2 weeks is up or forcing them to work until the absolute last minute without having knowledge transfer occurring. They were also very stubborn about change and accommodating different types of productivity, thinking the only way a team can collaborate is in person, in an office.
Work from home became frowned upon and anti-collaborative, mostly because they cannot micro-manage you as much if you're remote. They use the same software they sell to track every minute of your work life and criticize you and your team for not putting in enough hours. Management is also more than willing to throw you under the bus and blame you in front of stakeholders if something doesn't go their way.
The toxicity of the culture is more apparent when they refer to company as a "family" and having to dedicate more of your life towards the company, not only through work but with different activities, and kind-of ridiculous fitness and health challenges that disregard employee health.
Lots of experience gained and lessons learned that this reviewer will take with them moving forward. The hope is that this review will provide some additional insight to the company if you're considering a position, or if you have the ability, to change the practices.
