Poor leadership - Direct of Product Management Virta Employee Review

1.0
Nov 3, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good mission. Treatment works well for some.

Cons

Executive leadership tends to place blame on others instead of looking inward at their own missteps. Entire teams can be fired at a moments notice and without cause or feedback. Executives here are weak, operate in a top-down manner and don’t care for the well being of employees. There is generally a lack of holistic strategy or vision for the product and technology. Teammates and entire teams can and often are changed without any knowledge transfer - this often leads to a new team spending months learning about the same challenges, spending cycles finding a footing and when traction is beginning to show, they will be replaced as well. Rinse and repeat. Not much patience to do the difficult and necessary things for the company to succeed. One company value at Virta is “people-first” - they should instead update this value to “revenue-first, people-last”. Don’t listen to the PR about Virta - this is one place to avoid if you are coming from a healthcare or technology background. The same rings true if you expect a professional workplace.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 6, 2026
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Pros

Remote working, having the ability to mute your microphone during waste-of-time propaganda meetings. Benefits for L&D, and work at home stipend.

Cons

Any role that is Member facing is treated like trash. When they post positions, the sum total has often been 2-3 million, with the absolute lowest salaries being those helping Members. That says a lot- but then again, it's a for profit healthcare company, so that says it all. Every meme/satire or TT you've ever seen about toxic corporate workplaces are made because of places like Virta. Every manager, associate director and director share skillsets with snake-oil salesmen of old. They talk and you're aware they're using poor manipulation techniques that just give you the creeps. Nothing matters. High performers, low performers, those who have second jobs who don't even do their job- doesn't matter. You're all the same to them. They'll find a carrot to try to dangle- like 3 percent peanut butter raises. They abhor internal promotions, so it's a dead end job, no matter how much you demonstrate your value with metrics, skillsets, education, and experience. During hiring they sing a song about promotions, growth, new company, yadda-yadda, but it's all a lie. There's no communication between teams, and tribal knowledge rules. The left had has no idea what the right is doing. It honestly feels like a money laundering operation for people who know directors to get insider jobs. Run.

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