Classic Startup Nightmare - Anonymous employee soona Employee Review

2.0
Jan 11, 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Opportunity to work with an amazing team of creative peers.

Cons

Terrible management. Hired insanely talented, creative people who would quickly get burnt out and thrown out in the regular rounds of layoffs. They posture that they care about employees or their product, but in reality only care about profit. Instead of focusing on creating one really high quality, reliable product, they constantly change their goals and end up doing a dozen things badly instead of one thing very well. Overall felt like I was a machine churning out creative work that was barely used or in last ditch effort campaigns to grab money and not learned from. Also no opportunity to grow in my role, and with constant layoffs and talk about not meeting VC funding revenue goals, there was a perpetual feeling of uncertainty and fear that I was next on the chopping block.

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5.0
Sep 23, 2024
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Pros

The people. The team at soona has been one of the most supportive and inspiring collection of people I've met. I enjoyed my work as a Production Manager producing photo and video shoots.

Cons

As with most start ups, the atmosphere can be strained with high output.

2.0
May 17, 2026
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Pros

Base salary, remote work, can get commissions too.

Cons

Wants you to exceed expectations without management support. Toxic positivity was too much makes you wanna vomit! Management reacts aggressively to criticism. And then fire people for commenting and saying their grievances out loud!

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