Pros
Interesting company with a great mission that had great potential for years, but wrecked itself with incompetent, corrupt CEOs and ego-driven leadership.
Cons
Believe every word of these negative reviews. I have been involved with this company for years because I believed in the mission. Over time I saw amazing colleagues and leaders try to make a difference, only to be pushed out and burned out by the ego-driven incompetent and weak line-up of past and current CEOs. The culture is toxic to the level of making employees physically sick and leadership knows it and doesn’t care. There is all this lip service given to equity, inclusion and diversification, but in reality the CEO behaves with impunity, openly showing her lack of sensitivity, inclusion or understanding of what it takes to be a leader of an innovative organization in today’s world. But the hypocrisy continues on all levels. The leaders love to talk about how innovative the company is but the truth is that it is bogged down with slow systems, lack of clear strategic direction and changing priorities of the leaders. Middle managers are scared to loose their preferred positions under the CEO so keep quiet and comply but mock her constantly behind her back. The Founder moved on from Xprize years ago to focus on making money in more lucrative ventures and only uses this company when it benefits him. The Board has heard all the complains for years and have silently stood by as dedicated and competent individuals left or were pushed out under false pretexts. Meanwhile patterns of frivolous spending continue as trusting donors continue to give money, unaware of the toxicity, high staff burnout rates, lack of direction and the constantly floundering CEO.
