Pros
It used to be a place that trusted and inspired employees! The WFH flexibility and co-workers are the best part about working there. Casual dress environment.
Cons
Recently, the culture has shifted away from the transparent, open-minded org I joined into what feels like a bureaucratic sourcing factory. As mentioned above, there has been a clear shift in culture in 2019. To me, one of the first warning signs that leadership was no longer bought into the culture/values was when they moved desks to sit upstairs where no one else in the company is allowed to sit. It became clear to me that leadership no longer valued cultivating or continuing a flat, non-hierarchal startup environment. I believe this shift happened when two new Directors were hired in 2019 who both come from extremely corporate backgrounds. Neither HR nor the Marketing has prior startup experience, which comes across clearly in the former's inconsistent approach to HR and the latter's disingenuous attempts at marketing. For some reason, Marketing isn’t focused on highlighting the best parts of IQTP’s culture: the people. Instead, marketing tried to mask/filter out our authenticities. For example, I overheard Marketing tell one person she should probably put on lipstick for an office photo shoot... not cool. Also, Marketing has sent out emails telling us to “dress nice” on certain days when leadership was expecting certain guests in office (we have a casual dress environment, why does she want us to broadcast something different?) What’s more, after looking at the other recent reviews on here, I can honestly say that the majority of reviews that only comment on how awesome leadership is were probably written by Marketing. Here’s why: anyone who works at IQTP knows that the best part of working there is the WFH flexibility and coworkers, not leadership? It's been cringe-worthy to watch someone "market" the company who doesn't know how to represent it authentically. I was fooled by HR's initial friendliness. HR pretends to be there for employees and have their best interest in mind, but is known to brief the CEO on every conversation that might negatively impact the image of the company (there are many) instead of addressing the issue head-on (the CEO himself — examples listed below). Not only has HR failed to involve exit interviews for every employee, but some employees have quit giving ample notice (up to 4 weeks notice to transition all responsibilities) and, subsequently, were asked to leave sooner without severance compensation. All of this to say, Marketing and HR were strategically hired to further the CEO's agenda of turning IQTP into something that can be bought out/sold. The CEO doesn't care about his employees or anyone else's ideas of how to make IQTP a better place to work. He doesn’t let others speak in meetings about their performance. He doesn't care about data and makes accusations based on his own assumptions. He’s verbally admitted to having a “list” of people who aren’t on his good side. He's probably the most patronizing boss I've ever had.
