Hard work. - Anonymous employee Xos Trucks Employee Review

2.0
Sep 11, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Innovative products, hard working co workers.

Cons

The Co-founders are inexperienced to automotive and truck industry and expect the world from employees and suppliers. Many of our suppliers went above and beyond in the services they provided but the founders always wanted more and usually underpaid for the job in the first place. It was hard to do my job because many of the suppliers would no longer work for us due to non-payment or underpayment; extremely unprofessional. As an exempt employee I worked hundreds of hours for free, it is impossible to have a balanced work / home-life. Even though I gave 110% in my work, it never satisfied. During my time, advice from experienced employees was ignored; extremely talented people left or were let go. This company will squeeze the life out of you and leave you high and dry taking credit for the hard work you accomplished.

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Xos Trucks Response
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Thank you for sharing this feedback. There’s a lot here that we find troubling, and while we would like to affirm that we maintain positive relationships with our suppliers, what we really want to talk about is the feeling of having the life squeezed out of you. Gracious, that’s bad. That’s the opposite of the effect we want to have on anyone, especially our employees. We thank you for the enormous effort you gave, and sincerely apologize that it felt like it was never enough. We do work hard, but we will continue striving to demonstrate our appreciation of our team members and their talents every day. We couldn’t do this without you.

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