Management so clueless they don't even know what to tell people to do - Anonymous employee Carbon Employee Review

2.0
Sep 12, 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The print technology is great. Benefits are good and facility is pretty good too. If you try to quit they will promote you.

Cons

Pervasive "Can't do" attitude. You have to look a certain way to be successful here. Rich people only. The best talent I've seen at Carbon has left. Extremely difficult to be promoted. There appears to be a lot of flexibility with roles, but in the end the roles you are allowed to perform will be limited by your physical appearance or if you possess any hot button traits. There are very toxic and stagnant management chain that is extremely unpleasant to work with. Many people are pretend working and it just depends on your popularity how little work you can get away with. It feels like working in a high school with the drama, popularity contests, and blatant displays of wealth. Some allude to the culture at Carbon being a scrappy start-up culture but that could not be farther from the truth. It is a culture of entitled people talking down to each other. It is also downright offensive the way they throw around senior titles. Most people that hold senior titles here probably threatened quitting and were promoted solely off that. They expect you to teach your higher-ups everything only to be looked down upon and treated poorly.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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