Great company going through typical startup growing pains - Anonymous employee Carbon Employee Review

3.0
Jul 5, 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

° Great compensation + benefits ° You'll be working with some of the smartest and most polite people in the industry (everyone legit makes an effort to help and support others, which says a lot of the department's culture) ° Because of Carbon's customers and partners, you'll be working on some of the biggest campaigns/launches of your career

Cons

° Everything is a priority, which creates lots of problems and leads to employees being overworked and burnt out ° The company has a flexible time-off policy, but very few employees take time off (partly due to fear of work being piled up) ° Many of the employees within the department are teams-of-ones, so there's not a lot of help or resources when you're doing all the work alone (unless you involve a teammate) ° Department could do a lot more with regards to work-life balance. Many employees are working long hours into the evening and even on the weekends ° There are lots of cooks in the kitchen. Some of the marketing leaders can be micro-managers and not all the employees are empowered to be experts in their field ° No clear-cut growth plans for employees. Many have been at Carbon for a few years and are still doing the same thing without a promotion or additional support

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5.0
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Pros

good work life balance and smart people

Cons

frustrating lack of strategy sometimes

2.0
May 5, 2026
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Pros

Back in the day, Carbon was an awesome place to work with great talent. They had recruited an amazing team, and built some really cool products.

Cons

There is no bright future ahead for Carbon. They are simply in way too small, way too competitive, no growth markets and have tried for years and invested hundreds of millions (closer to a billion) to find better markets and simply cannot. Its a sad story more than anything else, as overtime there has been decent leadership, but they should have made a massive pivot into a completely different business - they had 700 million+ in funding, enough to reinvent the business 5 times over. The equity realistically is valued at 0, because companies in this space get ultra low valuation multiples (~1-2), especially if revenue has been flat or down for years (used to work in venture capital). Do not waste your time here any longer, thinking there is any way this will change. They missed the opportunity to sell at the peak of the bubble. Now there is too long an operating history to make the case the future will be different.

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