Not a bad startup to work for (compared to most startups), still.. - Anonymous employee Automatic Employee Review

3.0
Feb 5, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Automatic hires accomplished and smart people. The CEO is a strong leader. There is some humility with some of the Leadership team.

Cons

The leadership team lacks experience and know-how to ship "sticky" consumer products. They met in school and are brilliant though not product people. One of these founders lacks the humility to realize his product weaknesses, which is the real failure so he micro-manages. High attrition.

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 3, 2016
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Pros

Flexibility, if you make it in the right group you can work as you please or not work at all. The majority are not held accountable for doing actual work, instead they post news articles all day, joke and banter with other non-workers. However, if you are not in the "click" you will be picking up the slack for that select majority. The culture here is more like a popularity contest. You'll do well here even if you have no experience, no work ethic, and if you do not use common sense, as the decision makers of this group does not appreciate professionals and thinkers, only "yes men" to cater their inflated egos. After working here, I've coined the term "slack it til you make it" similar to faking it until you make it. If you wind up here, you'll get my drift. This company is more like a high school or fraternity and that may work for some, but if you have real work experience you'll know this mentality is not flying in the real work force. This is definitely a job you take if you are in between jobs or if you are out of work.

Cons

Read the review from 2014 the Software Engineer who left the review was dead on point about this company, I found everything they said in the past to be true today. That would explain the high attrition rate they suffer.

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