This company will fail and the CEO should step down - Research Associate UPSIDE Foods Employee Review

1.0
Apr 5, 2025
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Pros

The team is great, they're putting up with so much from management and executives.

Cons

I worked at Upside Foods for several years and my employment came to an end last year. I consider it the worst work experience in my career, mostly due to management. Managers in this company need to take a long and hard look at themselves. HR should also take a look at their long track records of bullying, lack of technical and managerial experiences, and sometimes even racism. There are more incompetent managers at Upside than I can count, some of the technical mistakes they make in large meetings are just embarrassing, yet for some reason they're never replaced or let go. On the contrary, junior people from their teams are laid off or blamed for managers mistakes. Certain upper management persons are some of the reason why this company will fail, if you continue to promote people based on popularity and not competence that's what will happen. The C-suite folks are also incompetent, some of them we never see or hear from, and some of them have made mistakes that cost the company millions of dollars yet no one is holding them accountable. No product after all these years, no one believes in you anymore internally or externally. Good luck getting consumers to buy your product in the current economic landscape.

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5.0
Mar 26, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

UPSIDE is my first experience working at a startup and it's exceeded my expectations. It has all the benefits of a startup - flat structure, IC can achieve real impact, and minimal bureaucracy - without the toxic culture of other bay area tech startups. The company has a very diverse set of talent and the people here care a lot about the positive impact of their work, which makes the workplace experience very pleasant

Cons

Company direction and strategy is ever changing, people needs to be comfortable with navigating ambiguity

5.0
Mar 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Building a food system so people can eat meat at scale without destroying the world has to be one of the most important needs of this generation alongside clean power and good health. I'd volunteer to advance this mission, so it's wonderful to also get paid to do it. Hard and challenging start-up work means fast-growth and zero dull repetition. Every single person cares about the mission. Very low politics compared to many companies

Cons

Not for everyone. We work hard, We have high expectations of ourselves, We're doing science that's never been done before, and that means you need to be OK failing, learning, and then succeeding. Don't come here if you just want a paycheck/payout or are going to be sad our snacks don't compete with your favorite profitable tech campus. But come if you want to better the world.

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