Sonder reviews

The pay was okay, but the benefits are terrible. PTO for hourly employees is an industry low (if you are salaried you get unlimited, hourly employees do not), no 401K match, and health insurance premium is very high. Company is not organized and the communication between departments is lacking. All this being said, I still enjoyed my time working there. I was laid off with the March lay offs of around like 400 employees. I was fine with it, it is a bad situation and it happens. That is until I looked on LinkedIn and saw that only a few weeks after layoffs, Sonder was hiring again in the Financial Operations department. What a joke. Sonder put several people out of work from that department, people who had families and bills to pay. To turn around and rehire someone new (only weeks after they laid off a significant amount of people) instead of offering to move people from that department around to a different position and retaining the employees that they had is so disrespectful.

Where to start. At Sonder there is a consistent pattern of hiring narcissistic directors whose sole goal is self-promotion and to cash in big when (and if) there is an IPO. Employees are not supported, grown or retrained when systems change overnight, (which they do quite often). You are just let go. No warning. The culture while you work there is nasty, mean-girl high school sort of antics. One director was heard telling a direct report that they disgust them, another use to pretend to strangle people if they did something wrong. Twice the head of recruiting has just got up from their desk and walked out due to pressure to hire, hire, hire at all costs. Most people try to hang in there for one year and ultimately leave. It is a high pressure, low pay, toxic environment. They care about growth only so they look enticing for investors. How employees are treated is of no importance to them. Word to the wise, if you are interviewing here read ALL the reviews but know the good ones are posted by recruiting. There was a big internal push to have people post positive reviews because the truth was hurting their recruiting efforts.