Toxic workplace masked by faux-progressivism, worst professional experience of my career - Anonymous employee Hustle Employee Review

1.0
Feb 24, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

At the time, the product felt like a novel idea. Was a plus to work with progressive-leaning organizations. And because people constantly leave the company or are terminated, you can have the opportunity to work on projects outside of the role you were hired for.

Cons

Truly terrible work-life balance. Very messy onboarding. Many broken promises involving role responsibilities and compensation. If you fear losing your job, you will be gaslit. I saw multiple people who were terminated be trash talked by management after they left the company. They also told me once that a co-worker would be fired, and instead they were moved to a different role with more responsibility – truly confusing and made it difficult to work together as a team. Promises around compensation were not kept, and they are not professional or ethical when it comes to basic requests by former employees. I found that the diversity metrics Hustle touts were driven mainly by entry-level employees that had no say in the direction of the company – hopefully that has changed.

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Jul 9, 2023
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Pros

Great work- life balance, great salary, great people, shared mission, and fun work environment

Cons

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1.0
Mar 27, 2024
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Pros

Good medical benefits, flexible time off and sabbatical policy (if you make it that long). Really fun culture and opportunities to get to know people outside of work meetings.

Cons

Stagnant career growth for employees that don't fall in line, huge disconnect between employees and management, vindictive behavior in senior leadership that was never addressed/ignored, poor hiring practices, hiring "experts" with no SaaS experience, fake mission and values, promoting based on tenure not performance, scaling too quickly leading to layoffs in the same year, some leaders within the organization demonstrated inefficiencies in budget management, resulting in the expenditure of over half a million dollars within a single year, and laying off a quarter of the staff six weeks before the end of the year with an insulting severance package. They'll lure you in with their mission, but beware, they're not ingrained in the day-to-day because if it was, all of leadership would be gone.

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