Ulterior Motives - Anonymous employee Motive Employee Review

If you are reading this, I’m sorry that you worked at or are considering working at Motive. This place needs to be exposed on a grand scale for their unethical leadership practices. Don’t get attached to your salary, benefits, or coworkers bc your jobs are in jeopardy as soon as you start. Decisions are made based on short term emotions and constantly changing priorities with no regard to long term success. Employees are disposable based on how your manager, their manager, or execs are feeling at the time. 
 Someone else wrote that this company is run like a frat house and they would be correct except for the fact that a frat house is supposed to be FUN and foster a brotherhood. A brotherhood more like Cain and Abel maybe, in addition to the sad fact that they do not hire or support women. Motive/Keep Truckin’ puts all the emphasis on being macho and the more ruthlessly and cutthroat you treat your employees, the better. The culture is more toxic than you could ever imagine. Work/life balance is a joke with your day starting before 8am, meetings booked over lunch hour, and slack pings haunting you relentlessly throughout the night. HR is fully aware and either unable, or worse, unwilling to stand up for employees. They throw their hands in the air at every unfair decision and employee complaint without ever holding anyone accountable. 
 I’ve spent about 5 min reading these reviews and have counted 4 rounds of layoffs mentioned since 2020, ask yourself is that normal for a company that is “doing well” and profitable? Make it make sense! They do this over and over again: over hire, promise there will be no layoffs, and then “oops surprise - here is an unavoidable decision that we feel really really bad about.” Leadership didn’t learn their lesson from the last 4 times they did this? You can’t use COVID as an excuse anymore, this is 1,000% preventable and due to your bad decision making. At this point it is clearly not a mistake, but an intentional decision to run your business this way. Stop opening and hiring roles based on short term need just because you can fire them/lay them off later when you inevitably change your mind. These are real people - have some humanity. Shame on you, Shoaib.

 I’m not just bitter about how it ended, my entire tenure there was riddled with fear, confusion, burnout, and being thrown under the bus for mistakes that were made before I even joined. 
I would avoid this place like the plague if I were you. Biggest mistake of my career. If only I could go back and tell my past self to run away bc now I want to run in front of one of their trucks.