Leadership is out of touch or inept - Anonymous- Salaried Staff Relias Employee Review

1.0
May 1, 2024
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Pros

Fellow employees are great, very friendly, collaborative environment. Some of the benefits (401k matching, employee provided insurance, unlimited PTO) are pretty good.

Cons

Upper management. They ignore issues until they can't be ignored, then layoff the people that had nothing to do with the poor decisions. C-level: CEO is mostly absent. He is at the All Hands meeting but has no insight or engagement. Almost immediately hands off microphone to someone else. Previous CEO was engaged with employees at all levels. Chief Product Officer can't communicate well - his comments are full of buzz words that don't convey any real information. He has been running engineering for the past couple of years and done it poorly. Chief People Officer, when trying to announce the return to office policy that was poorly written called the people on the call cynical because they had legitimate questions. She disappeared from communicating for a few weeks but never acknowledged her poor response. Management routinely waves their hand and says not to worry about metrics that are in the red because some new initiative is going to bring that into the green, but every quarter it's still red. In general, the management has some great published corporate values that they don't follow and will punish those that do (Healthy Debate, Data Driven Decision Making?) Compensation is low for the area.

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5.0
Apr 18, 2026
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Pros

Amazing corporate culture Leadership listened to engineering on tools, technology stack, etc Actual product ownership, including necessary input and control (instead of being told you own a product and then not given the necessary access or tools to maintain it)

Cons

Hiring process involved psychological screening with a lot of implicit bias, almost like an IQ test. On the plus side, I've been told they discontinued its use after that was pointed out.

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2.0
Apr 23, 2026
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Pros

Some of the peers met.

Cons

You have to be a "yes" person. It is not about your productivity or tenure. The organization celebrates the money-makers. They romanticize a false sense of community. They celebrate the coffee shop with a zombie like fixation. It doesn't detract from the underlying problems of management being out of touch with employees. Their inability to read the room has been present for a while. They failed to see during Covid that it takes more than food, drink and "community" when the fact of the matter was that it only showed lack of trust in their employees. Team meetings consist of a manager who is incapable of reigning in meetings that devolve into nonsense and wasted time. Obvious bias exists as there are clear favorites on the team, and their ideas are more readily accepted and heard. Comments as to appearance lead to obvious preference and isolation of other team members. Now that DEI is thing of the past and everyone is trying to navigate it smoothly, Relias proceeds to post the whitest President’s Club photo ever. It’s completely tone-deaf. They continue to make decisions that may seem to make sense at the top but have no relevance or need when it comes to employees.

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