Granum reviews

- Leadership culture often felt overly centered around the CEO, creating an environment where disagreement or constructive feedback did not feel psychologically safe. - “Unlimited vacation” existed in theory, but workloads were so high that taking meaningful time off often felt discouraged in practice. - Frequent terminations with vague reasoning created instability and anxiety across teams despite messaging around avoiding layoffs. - Strong push toward AI adoption, often without enough input from employees actually doing the work day-to-day, resulting in impractical workflows and inconsistent output quality. - Company branding emphasized being people-first, but internally the culture often prioritized speed and output over employee wellbeing. - Travel expectations were significantly higher than communicated during hiring, and overwork was often publicly praised. - Leadership encouraged employees to raise concerns, but many people felt uncomfortable doing so due to fear of negative consequences. - Team morale and relationship-building initiatives were deprioritized because everyone was constantly overloaded with work. - Employee suggestions around improving systems and processes were often dismissed without meaningful discussion. - Management frequently introduced AI tools and “solutions” without consulting the teams expected to use them. - Employees were consistently stretched thin, which contributed to low morale and a lack of genuine connection across teams. - Stakeholders were often misaligned on priorities, with little consideration given to team capacity or workload sustainability.

All the top people are buddies from previous jobs that hire nepotistically without full interview process. People get randomly fired frequently for "values not aligning" while CEO promises not to do layoffs. After the acquisition last year, almost every employee of the acquired company left or got fired within months. Leadership is always chasing shiny things and cancelling large projects right before they are ready to release to chase the next shiny thing. In the last all-hands meeting, the CEO was day drinking and complaining about how inconvenient first class travel can be, while having promised to improve healthcare benefits last year and didn't making any meaningful change. He nickel and dime's employees while simultaneously throwing yacht parties for customer events. He's unprofessional at best, almost always showing up to meetings quite late while clearly in a vacation destination. Managers is promote themselves to higher and higher titles while refusing to promote individual contributors and intentionally undertitleing and underpaying existing and new employees. Many executives and leaders are not qualified for their positions. Their hiring standards are very low, so you can probably land a job here if you want, but don't plan to enjoy your work or the company culture. Because of low standards, we have a lot of "senior" developers who have narcissistic tendencies and get in endless arguments. I would only recommend as a good stepping stone while you look for a decent job after a layoff.