Toxic and chaotic leadership - Anonymous employee Dragonboat Employee Review

1.0
23 Mar 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great product, solving a major problem. With good clientele.

Cons

I'll definitely not recommend this place to anyone. The CEO is so set in her ways, not wanting to improve much. I was only able to stay here for 3 months before quitting because my mental health was going through it. Here's my experience: In my first few weeks, the CEO will call me before our usual check-in time, and if maybe I've gone out for lunch, she'll start shouting about how I was not available during my work hours. Then when we meet, she'll belittle me and my work, then start asking why she hired me, that she could've just done the work herself. Whenever we do reviews, I get to ask some questions, and suggest better ways of doing some things, then we start going backnforth until I yield and say yes to her. It sometimes gets bad, and she'll start raising her voice at me. Since she's a PM herself, design takes the backseat here and engineering efforts are prioritized. She doesn't fully get what a Designer does. After nearly two months of working here, I made a tiny mistake on a feature - this was a very simple case of "adding a box here, and moving a button to the left", but she sent me an agressive message saying that I didn't understand the feature or it's impact. Then she got on a call with me screaming and said that I lied about my skillset, that I wasn't a Product Designer, that I was more of a Visual Designer. Then slashed my pay, and said she pays way lesser to designers in the past.

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1.0
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Pros

MOST of the people here are amazing. Everyone is very helpful and very capable of doing a great job.

Cons

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