Toxic culture - Senior Software Engineer C3 AI Employee Review

1.0
17 Mar 2020
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Pros

I'm struggling to think of any

Cons

Tom's internal email during the coronavirus crisis sums up this company and it's management's attitude to it's employees. Working from home during this global health crisis is treated as a "perk”. Instead of being sympathetic to the current situation and the stress it places on their employees, C3 decided to discourage people working from home unless mandated by the government and double down on their obsession with micro-managing their employees by asking them to report online to daily morning team meetings, provide daily task status emails to account for how the 8 hours in a day was spent on top of the existing innumerable status reports. Employees have also been mandated to appear via video in these calls to ensure everyone is dressed professionally at all times when working from home and that they’re not “distracted by family”. Tom Siebel’s disgust for people trying to manage their lives while in his employment could not be clearer. If this sounds like the type of company you would like to work for, please sign up and leave your dignity at the door.

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C3 AI Response
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This review is both untrue and unfair. Tom Siebel’s COVID email to employees and to customers can be reviewed here: https://c3iot.box.com/v/COVID19-Emails . The March 14th email was amended on March 16th to mandate work from home for all California headquarters personnel, consistent with local law. We believe an objective reader will find these messages both consistent with best practices and highly sensitive to the needs of employees, customers, and the community at large.

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