Spire Global reviews

-Absolutely horrible leadership coupled with an obsession of hiring outside middle managers means the talented individual contributors will stay in their place and be neither seen nor heard. -No training for what passes for managers and absolutely no career development plans or transparency on the annual promotion process. -Watching talented people leave for other opportunities where their efforts are valued means every employee knows their future is not at Spire. -Buzzwords are very common but this company is not run at all like a technology company with sales and marketing being the biggest and only focus rather than on development and innovation. -Significant bureaucracy and hierarchy of a European multinational but with the size of a startup that was supposedly founded in San Francisco. -Absolutely no communication or transparency, especially now that they are public which seems to be an excuse to communicate even less than in the earlier days. -Headcount grew very fast which led to a lot of mediocre hires which turned into significant layoffs after IPO. -Extremely cheap on anything employee focused like home office setup while wasting money on first class flights for the c-suite. -There is also an extremely weird opposition to Spire swag/t-shirts. Three different heads of HR have said they would make a company store to get branded items all to have it canceled by the CEO. In three years I only got one t-shirt and one hoody when we went public and raised close to $300M. -No vision for what this company should be or strive to do, there is a new roadmap suggested about every month. Peter the CEO has never set or communicated a corporate strategy which makes execution very ambiguous. -Archaic growth plans that are driven by sales and marketing with no mention of product and engineering. How are you going to grow a business with nothing new to sell?

Spire has had it's challenges over the years like any startup, but the long-running issues with leadership and transparency are coming to a head this year. Faith in the company is at an all-time low, and a lot of really important, talented employees are jumping ship. I was shocked to revisit Glassdoor and see that Spire has achieved a 4-star rating. Previous reviews with more real accounts of the company's "pros" and "cons" have been removed, and in the last month there has been a dramatic swell in positive reviews despite few new hires. The views that also featured some good constructive criticisms to management have also been deleted, an example of how leadership refuses to listen to employees who are handling the most important day-to-day work. Communication at Spire is terrible. Once we were told that no layoffs were being considered, and then just a week or so later Spire had multiple layoffs and "resignations." Management then didn't communicate any of those changes or address the sudden changes in key positions from employees who have been with the company for years. No one knew what was going on and all we had were rumors. The culture and the business itself is deteriorating and now is not a good time to hop in. Management's updates are often misleading and they don't practice what they preach. Money is being mismanaged and many of the "perks" that brought in employees in the first place are being revoked. I wouldn't trust working with any of these leaders again.