Sierra Space reviews

There are measures in place to mature a company. This includes resources, time, and money. Sierra Space leadership is aiming to "do it faster, cheaper, and better than anyone, ever". This approach has failed, and is ultimately pushing people out the door. Leadership is ruining the lives of all employees. They promised (especially CEO Tom Vice) the entire company that they would not mandate in-office work a few months ago. Then, they reneged on their promise. Their reasoning "we think you all will work better together in office and we can gain efficiencies". However, there are many jobs that can be done remotely, and effectively, and have proven to be so. When asked about their previous agreements to employees work-from-home arrangements, they responded "that doesn't matter, we are not honoring it". Leadership thinks they know better than their SMEs, which is causing many issues at the worker-level. If you can't trust your employees, why did you hire them? Outlook is grim. It is an "us vs them" mentality.

We used to have holiday parties. No more. We used to have an 80/9 schedule where employees worked extra hours so they could take every other Friday off. No more. The CEO Tom Vice said we will replace 80/9 with a more modern and flexible schedule. That never happened. Instead, we got mandatory overtime. Then, overtime pay was reclassified as surge or burst pay, and no longer authorized. Workers who were refused overtime pay for their extra hours stormed out. After the layoffs, we all are expected to work 3-4 jobs. Management expects each IT worker to Project Manage all work themselves, so you've got server dudes running contract negotiations. Everyone is a full stack developer, whether they are qualified or not. Hybrid schedules were very quietly banned with nothing in writing, which seems kind of illegal, given that many employees were hired before covid with the stipulation they would be allowed to work from home in their contracts. The recent layoffs didn't make much sense given our recent series B funding. Management makes goals that are based on aspirational wishes rather than any sort of resource planning. Management will say I want this thing done by April 15th, 2024, but no calculation is made about money or people. Actually, the wish will be put on the same person so now they get to work 80 hours a week, or 120, or something physically impossible.