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Overtime is the norm, and leaving “early” can negatively affect career opportunities. Recognition tends to favour those who stay late or maintain a strong social presence with upper management. High turnover and recurring layoffs make the environment unstable.
Long hours are common, and feedback often comes across as critical rather than constructive. The unusually high turnover speaks for itself: key roles such as legal counsel and head of finance saw multiple departures within short periods, and many long‑time contributors, including the sole HR manager at the time, eventually left. Despite layoffs, leadership continued pushing for enterprise ambitions without the necessary capacity, resulting in widespread overwork and burnout. They require you to wear multiple t-shirts, but in every all-hands they don't hide how disposable you are.
Technically, you can leave around 6pm, but doing so invites passive‑aggressive comments unless you've already resigned. Wellness initiatives like yoga or meditation feel superficial when more fundamental issues like workload and unrealistic expectations, remain unaddressed. Employees repeatedly voice concerns through surveys but rarely see meaningful action.
Visible commitment to environmental or social responsibility is minimal.
Requests for development plans or coaching rarely lead to concrete action items. Constructive guidance from managers is limited.
Teams generally try to support each other, but the chronic overload, tight deadlines, and rising burnout rates make it difficult to maintain a healthy sense of teamwork.
Very few older employees are hired, which limits diversity of experience. The culture of long hours and constant urgency does not support those with family responsibilities.
Micromanagement is widespread. Focus is placed on staying past a certain hour rather than on outcomes. Many managers lack people‑leadership experience, and this shows in day‑to‑day interactions.
The office feels overcrowded and shared spaces like the kitchen are rarely well maintained.
Managers struggle to offer meaningful career guidance or structured feedback. Even after clearly outlining career aspirations, these conversations are frequently forgotten and repeated months later. Tools like 360° reviews exist, but without accountability or follow‑through they have little impact. The constant "we are family" messaging feels disconnected from the actual employee experience.
They provide online meditation/yoga and now online psychologist/psychiatrist as employees are burning out. This tells how unhealthy it is to work for this company.
Decision‑making often sits within a small, homogeneous group, and several women have left citing unequal treatment. Public claims about diversity don’t always align with internal reality.
The benefits are top-notch, and the people and culture here are just amazing. Plus, the office is beautiful and in a great spot. It's a fantastic place to work.
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charles offers an incredible work environment with amazing colleagues. If I had to suggest any improvements, it would be to maintain the kitchen a bit more regularly, nothing else!
Hearing all the juicy gossips and relationship drama on a daily basis was certainly entertaining
- Not listening to other's viewpoints and just wanted to do things your way
- Not knowing how to read between the lines
- Not truly caring about employees' wellbeing
- Should have gotten rid of the other co-founder way sooner
- Drink less alcohol and be on time to meetings and have an agenda
Long hours and some employees give rather critical instead of constructive feedback. Turnover rate is quite high, and this show bad company culture. For example, legal counsel left after less than a year. Took over six months to find a replacement, who now is also leaving after less than a year. Many good employees who helped build the company, including the only HR Manager at the time, left last year.
Yes, you can leave the office at a reasonable time, like 6pm, but only if you have already resigned. For those still with the company, leaving early gets you passive-aggressive comments. Example is weekly workout session used to start at 6pm but got pushed to 7pm because CEO wanted us to work more. Another example is your boss would call you for work related matters and expect you to answer during your paid vacation. Management say they care about well-being with yoga and meditation classes, but this is just very superficial at best, and hysterical at worst. What employees really want is feedback in surveys to be taken serious, and see real actions to show voices and requests are heard.
Asked for it but never made any action items, let alone getting constructive feedback or coaching from the direct manager
Not many older colleagues were hired because there isn't much diversity in the first place. Also, no way they can work in a place where long hours is expected, even though they would not admit that publicly
I know it’s a startup and sometimes work is a lot. But many managers worked in big companies before. And they are usually late to meetings. And when he finally arrived, you often could smell his alcohol breath, and of course there was no agenda for the meeting. Also seemed to like to play favoritism.
Kitchen was never clean
Managers don't really know how to give good feedback to help their employees grow or be a good career coach. Even if you explained your career plans to them, they would forget and continue to expect you to keep doing things the old way. In three months, they would ask the same question again. Also, conducting comprehensive performance reviews, such as 360-degree feedback, is insufficient if there is no accountability or system to build, track, and follow up on action items. Overall, just didn't feel that I was being cared as an employee, even though they like to say 'we are family'.
There are at least a few people that left because they didn't receive a raise for over a year even though their performance review was good. Also not sure if asking a wellness company owned by one of the founder's girlfriend to provide online meditation/yoga classes is a benefit
Professionalism from a certain executive member with limited domain experience was also questionable, he fired an ethnic female employee with many years of experience just because they could not agree on things and that she did not finish work during weekend. Decisions are formed within a homogenous group most of the time. Many women left the company as well because they felt they were treated unequally. Their commitment to diversity is questionable, even though they recently claimed that they have have several women in senior positions. Take a quick look on LinkedIn and you will see there are only 2 women in Head/VP position.
Overtime is expected and leaving “early” will affect career chances. The type of individual who work late and socialise with upper management, are promoted or hired.
If you’re a certain type you have a career.
There are none
Women are barely promoted or listened to.
Pizza parties if you like them I guess
Pressure on overtime and bad meeting etiquette
Career possible but no training involved
Inclusive environment and openess for feedback and suggestions to improve work and culture, direct communication with leadership team and founders, no "hierarchies" visible in day to day operations, challenging tasks that matter for the business, onboarding process that leaves no questions open
Could offer a bit more training/education on the job