Dutchie reviews

Company wants to attract top talent while not offering top salaries, 401k and lacks competitive severance package. All of the people on my team are white. All of the software engineers at my level are white. The company over all is very white. Company is slowly tightening communication policies. At all-hands meetings, when there is an opportunity to ask questions, employees are given shallow answers publicly and then told to speak to their managers if they have any more concerns. Ultimately, not resolving any public concerns. CTO has a problem with micromanagement and has been told countless times without correction. Managers have left over it, and still no change or accountability. Ethics in general around working for white ppl who make millions in cannabis while poc sit in prison selling the same product. Company claims it's mission and value driven and CEO claims he's changing the world which very much falls into Silicon Valley saviorism tropes.

Lot's of instability. I almost feel bad for sourcing people away from steady jobs to come here. They are very meeting heavy and sometimes it's hard to get your actual job done. Leadership is poor. There are no check and balances. They like to say we want people who will just "get ish done" or "move first ask questions later", but it results in poor communication and people just taking on things to look busy and not making sure that it is effective or that the other people involved actually need it. A lot of the leaders are people who have just been there for a long time, but not neccessarily skilled enough to take the departments to the next level. You get the general sense that management is just winging it (which aren't we all) but because they dont really know, they dont really trust other people to do their jobs either. If things are changing they will just stop talking in general or even ignore you. You just have to kinda feel in your gut that things are gonna change. In a startup, prioties are going to change frequently. HOWEVER while I was there they would change on a daily sometimes hourly basis. They could care less about diversity. From what I've seen, if they are doing lay offs and you are BIPOC, you should be a little nervous. I dont think they are trying to be racist but they are not thoughtful about diversity AT ALL. You gotta be apart of the in crowd to make it here. It really helps to be white, male, have worked at Toast and get their jokes.