Stay away - Anonymous employee Planet Employee Review

1.0
Sep 26, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Domain (satellites / space) is definitely interesting. Just don't expect that you see too much of it.

Cons

* Company pretends to do good for the planet, however the biggest customers are defense related organisations like the military. Yet the company still aggressively touts some made-up humanitarian vision that couldn't be further away from the truth. * The amount of bureaucracy, politics and buzzword bingo is irritating at best, suffocating at worst. The company is far away from being an agile start-up. * Decisions coming from C-level are erratic, not thought through at all and most of the time so bad that they aggravate existing problems. * Moral compass is broken. People are getting fired left and right with no warning or proper reasons. American style a la "clean out your desk in 30 minutes" with a security guard watching. People are treated like pawns on a checker board. Everybody is just a replaceable cogwheel that might get fired on a whim. * The only thing that matters is cash, cash, cash. Because of that there is no company culture, no product culture and no believable vision

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