Coactum Reviews

The CEO is a kid without professional experience that tell his employees what they have to do or just does not listen to you. He forces team members to cancel holidays or come at an arbitrary early hour, for random deadlines he imposed to the team, while he usually comes late. He forces people to do fake plannings to make the things appear nice and try to get funding. Most of the times he plans random and inefficient meetings. He imposes the use of MacOS for engineering work. Finances are limited for a short left runway. Salaries are very low. Long story short you´re facing a compulsive narcissist without any background who believes he´s smarter than any other engineer, and who leads his company to a big fiasco.

Unfortunately the company suffers from very poor management (essentially just the CEO), stemming from a lack of experience and extreme stubbornness. The business and development plans are extremely unrealistic and will not be adjusted. The CEO serves as CTO as well, and makes decisions on a whim, without investing the time to understand complex topics. Concerns of employees are brushed aside, issues with timelines, development, purchasing, etc. are to be solved by the engineering team 'pushing harder', instead of re-evaluating the development plan. Compensation is quite low for the local living cost, and they tend to low-ball the offer at first.