Dutchie reviews

- Honestly, I wasn't impressed by the caliber of talent at Dutchie. Everyone is nice, but I consistent ran into people who were really winging it. In my previous companies, I was used to feeling like I was the dumbest person in the room. At Dutchie, I kept feeling like "um....does no one else see this???" - There isn't psychological safety. People DO NOT want to hear bad news and shoot messengers. This is causing massive issues to be swept under the rug. I'm still worried about retaliation from posting this review and I don't work there anymore.

Leadership lacks the foresight to properly run this company. As a result of poor planning, they spent too much money and hired too many people at breakneck pace. So of course, they just followed what the rest of the cool kids are doing and laid off a chunk of folks instead of finding a way to repurpose them. This was just weeks after Ross painted a rosy picture of Dutchie's future and telling us all that we have nothing to worry about. Based on some of the folks that were let go, it almost felt like names were picked out of a hat. A lot of them fell into the "last one in, first one out" bucket. They claimed that some of it had to do with performance, but as a top performer on my team with glowing reviews, I find that hard to believe. I wouldn't know either way because my manager never bothered to check in on me, just someone in HR. So much for #dutchiefam.