Navan reviews

The below list isn’t exhaustive, that would require a novel. 1. Ariel and his leadership team drive the “culture” of the company and that’s the problem. He is incredibly moody (various shades of terrible) and changes his mind regularly, leading to abrupt pivots that require you to drop everything you’ve been working on for weeks and start from scratch. The chaos that he creates is completely unnecessary and sets the business back regularly. We close offices and fire everyone only to reopen them shortly after. We have our 401k match and then we don’t (but other nonsensical perks, usually benefiting HQ, can stay). He randomly decided to start requiring employees to be in the office because he doesn’t trust them to work remotely, and threatened badge checks. He implemented “e-club” which is essentially an excuse for all of the men he works most closely with to go on an all expense paid trip to Cabo, while the rest of the company is told they cannot have backfills for the roles they desperately need to fill. 2. Inequity: the company could not be considered one that is diverse, and Thomas (former CFO) decided to get rid of the DEI leader, as well as the rest of the L&D team. Couldn’t make it any clearer that development isn’t important. 3. None of his direct reports have a backbone to speak up to him, and regularly use “well Ariel said to do it, so we have to do it” as an excuse for forcing their teams to fire people for no reason. 4. IPO continues to be pushed out. It’s a carrot that is dangled to lure people in, but if the company keeps going in this direction (valuation falling by half), there won’t be any value to the shares. We’ve had so much c-suite turnover, our exec team is a bunch of white men +2 women (one who has absolutely no business having her title) and one who just started.

Take a look around at the people left in your respective organizations. With churn so high, who’s left? Usually the people who are the underperformers and have very few job prospects — the only reason why they would stay behind at this dumpster fire of a company. I keep hearing about attrition in my former team and this is exactly what I’m seeing. I left a few months ago because I had no mentorship, was frustrated at the lack of systems and adaptability of my teammates (why are we still doing things in such a rudimentary way and why are people so resistant to change?), the clear indications that the company is going downhill (first sign was the rebrand…) and finally, the militant atmosphere of management. The Independent wrote a great article about Navan and included a note about an employee who was forced into a corner by their boss to delete a review — entirely true and an accurate depiction of the sort of culture that is encouraged at this company. If you have any other options, leave. You’re being left behind with the bottom of the barrel who will continue to run the place to the ground. All while being severely underpaid.