"Startup" w/ no benefits of being a startup - Anonymous employee NewsBreak Employee Review

2.0
Jan 13, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Used to be a startup environment that encouraged cross-functional team collaboration and provided opportunity to strategize and make impacts to the business. Hybrid work environment. Mediocre/average benefits. Some really good people who deserve to be promoted, or at least recognized, for the great work they have done.

Cons

Continually hires high level execs to oversee and demote people who have been in the company doing the job. Never gives promotions. Flat or decreasing user base, yet management expects huge growth out of all other parts of the business without putting meaningful investment in the teams/product. Startup environment has turned into bureaucratic business where autonomy is taken away and employees are expected to be robots with no voice, and work is made 5x less efficient due to new processes that cause multiple bottlenecks and discourages collaboration - under guise that this how we scale the business. In reality this is going to stall the growth.

Explore other reviews about NewsBreak

5.0
Apr 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

products, culture, learning and growth

Cons

Work life balance is bad, Coding test is hard

2.0
Jul 7, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Catered lunch daily. Good health insurance.

Cons

No diversity & inclusion for anyone that is not Chinese, No work-life balance, constant micromanagement from leadership, 9/9/5 culture, mentally absent & checked-out managers, constantly change of priorities, no praise when OKRs were surpassed.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All