Unsunstainable Work Culture - Anonymous employee Zymergen Employee Review

1.0
Mar 4, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

founders seem competent and are likely clueless to the toxic work place

Cons

toxic work environment "Do whatever you can at whatever cost" attitude Bloated middle-management is causing a slowdown in work pace. Management is untrained in actually... you know... managing. They are focused are delivering results, despite not knowing HOW to deliver results. I was hired as a senior associate but am doing entry-level work. I can't contribute to bigger projects because there is nobody else to actually execute on the things that HAVE to get done. The people that were hired a year or more ago have a revered position/opinions merely because they've actually managed to survive here. This attitude is detrimental to the company, though. Maybe the veterans were good at there job when we were smaller, but they don't know how to scale, manage, or keep their egos in check. Honestly, I want to love it here, but the egos and middle management make it impossible to work here. This place is hemorrhaging good talent.

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