Avoid at all cost - Executive Assistant and Office Manager Intenseye Employee Review

1.0
21 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Absolutely none that I identified. Do not leave your job for this role.

Cons

The organization is extremely centralized around the CEO, with most decisions, direction, and prioritization flowing through a single individual. This resulted in constant shifts in scope, priorities, and expectations, making it difficult to understand what the role entails or how success would be measured. The leadership approach is highly reactive rather than intentional or structured, with decisions seemingly driven by short-term impulses rather than a clear strategy. This creates constant confusion across the process and gives the impression of limited alignment within the leadership team. Overall, the experience shows an environment with low process maturity, where leadership dynamics and changing direction significantly disrupt day-to-day operations, role clarity, and long-term planning.

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Intenseye Response
4mo
Thanks for taking the time to share this feedback. We recognize how important consistent direction, role clarity, and structured prioritization are for individuals and teams to do their best work. As a growing company, we have not always gotten this balance right, and we are striving to improve how we plan, communicate, and measure success. Over the past several months, we have been investing in stronger operational processes, clearer goal-setting, and more consistent cross-functional alignment to support our teams and reduce unnecessary shifts in priorities. We appreciate you sharing your perspective, and we remain committed to building a more intentional, transparent, and supportive environment as we continue to scale. - VP Operations

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5.0
4 Feb 2026
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Pros

The people I've encountered at Intenseye truly want the best for each individual, and being apart of a startup means you are constantly collaborating cross-departmentally and getting a chance to know everyone you work with. There is a great work-life balance, and emphasis on producing quality work while also acknowledging life outside the corporation.

Cons

Because it's a startup, things can change quickly and often. If you are someone who is unable to adapt to changing scenarios easily, this (or any startup) would not be for you.

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Intenseye Response
3mo
Thanks for the feedback! We definitely don’t shy away from change around here, and I’m really glad you also felt supported by the team and able to maintain balance. Thanks for all you do. - People team
1.0
18 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits; ICs are smart, dedicated, and support one another

Cons

Unfortunately this goes far beyond normal startup chaos. The entire company operates around the whims of one person, and is constantly "reinventing itself" with an obsessive focus on unrealistic speed at the expense of ethics, stability, and product quality. ALL senior leadership (Sales, CS, HR, Product, Ops) have left within the last 6 months. Leadership claims that the departed leaders left because they couldn't handle the startup pace, but in reality no one has real decision authority besides the CEO. Company regularly commits new products & features to customers without consulting internal teams, and as a results always overpromise and underdeliver. The website is full of made-up capabilities that are far from existence. Company and product direction changes on a weekly basis, and exhausted engineers and front-line teams are scrambling to hold pieces together and sometimes are told to just make up lies to customers to keep them hanging a bit longer. Half of the engineering team was also laid off without informing even the engineering managers, because "AI will code faster", which is just one of the many restructuring that happened in the past several months. Teams and managers are moved around without justifications. Even promotion seems arbitrary and often used as tactics. At this point, there are effectively no qualified leaders left. The CEO and CTO are vibe coding and shipping AI slops directly to customers. Look elsewhere, and save yourself from career trauma.

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Intenseye Response
1d
Thank you for the detailed feedback. We know rapid growth comes with difficult tradeoffs, and we're sorry your experience here didn't reflect the environment we want to build. Stability, transparency, and clear direction matter to us, and we're continuing to invest in all three. We'd welcome the chance to hear more directly if you're open to it. We appreciate your contributions and wish you well. Sr. Director of People
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