Be Warned - Anonymous employee Posiba Employee Review

1.0
24 Feb 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

It is a unique group of overly qualified people. The company encompasses some of the best talent I have ever seen being constrained by threats and intimidation from a passionate, but misguided, leader. I am pleased to have met and worked with many of them. There is some flexibility in the work schedule for some employees.

Cons

While there may be some value to the idea behind the products in design, most of what is delivered are promises to be carried out by a team with no creative control and who regularly disappear with no explanation. Expect to be on call 24/7, below basic benefits, little vacation that will surely be interrupted with work, shockingly few holidays and the expectation that nothing in your life is as important as what the CEO needs at that very moment, no matter the time of day or night nor how trivial it may be. I have also never been witness to such a tremendous lack of respect for others' time, whether the meeting is with internal or external constituents, expect to wait an average of 30 minutes before the CEO makes an appearance.

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Posiba Response
10y
We’re sorry to learn you didn’t have a great experience here. All staff are also offered regular access to share feedback and suggestions. When staff changes are needed, we also encourage participation in exit interviews to ensure feedback is heard. We listen carefully for ways to improve as we are committed to being a place people love to work. We work hard to assemble a team that has great skills, knowledge and a positive attitude toward work and life. We recruit for mastery…we believe in advancing autonomy and empowerment in alignment with mastery. We also help staff develop mastery, recognizing it's a developable path. We have a rigorous and inclusive creative and design process as one of our key product differentials includes design. We also look for people genuinely committed to our work that are tuned to the characteristics of a startup environment. And, we strive to create an environment for our team that matches our broader company goals--to measure social conditions and progress, to activate more individual giving and expand empathy and connection in service of helping people meet societal needs, and to power more philanthropic capital to flow to the charitable sector and improve our world. We believe that those that connect to our work will be able to put the normal workplace challenges into proportion. We also value performance, kindness and compassion and understand that the leadership style, including that of our engaged and passionate founder CEO, didn’t meet your needs. We genuinely have regret that you didn’t have a wonderful experience here. Like any relationship, the best employment situations are about finding a great match. We work hard to express the expectations and norms ahead of our employment relationships to ensure that it will be satisfying to both sides. We can see you were unprepared for the environment and we’re working to make sure we do more to help folks understand ahead of joining us. As we work on four continents, we have differing work schedules and norms for different departments. We’re still working to sort out communication so there is better understanding of where folks are and what time zone they’re operating in. We observe all the main holidays in the regions we operate and our PTO policies are standard and expand with tenure. Our benefits package is good and includes all the normal elements (health, 401k, stock options, etc.) and will continue to evolve as we mature. As a startup, the senior and middle management is still being assembled. The cadence of the office also continues to evolve with added staff support and more hands to distribute the work. And as with any new company developing and growing our team and product, we face all types of challenges. Yet this work is worthy so we strive to overcome these. We've had to make tough decisions and we've made tremendous progress with our team, products and customers and are set up to thrive. We genuinely wish you well and hope you have found a better employment match.

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5.0
11 Oct 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The mission and vision of the company are exceptionally motivating to a person that wants to help other people. The management team is dedicated and works hard with what they have available to them to execute on their mission.

Cons

The company needs the proper funding to staff key roles effectively. Once Funding is secured I am very confident the team will accomplish its lofty goals.

5.0
2 Dec 2015
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Pros

This company has a lot of very smart people behind it and committed to seeing it succeed but make no mistake you have to be an A to succeed here. The work is very challenging and you know if you make it here you have really accomplished something because only the A's are going to succeed. B's tend to not keep up and get let behind. Feedback is direct and often. You always know where you stand and how the CEO thinks. I always wanted to work with a strong female CEO. With over 70 employees and an international footprint its a great place to get exposure to all kinds of experience you might not find in other organizations and there are some very talented minds on the team. I love that the whole company is paperless and therefore employees can work all over the world and collaborate as if they were all in the same office. I like the downtown location and free parking provided by the company to all employees is nice.

Cons

As its a start-up the benefits are not on par with some larger organizations but the stock options make up for that (no risk, no reward). Again as its a start-up the internal processes and procedures are still evolving and not yet at a mature state so some things are more manual than I would like.

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Posiba Response
10y
We appreciate your feedback as we believe this is one of the ways that we get better. In response, we’re committed to excellence and work hard to assemble a team that has great skills, knowledge and a positive “can do” attitude toward work and life. We value mastery level performance, kindness and compassion. We recruit for mastery as we believe it is important to achieving our objectives as well as advancing autonomy and empowerment—factors we know are important to a positive experience. We also help staff develop mastery, recognizing it's often a developable path when desired. And, we look for people genuinely committed to our work that are tuned to the characteristics of a startup environment. To this point, we strive to create an environment for our team that matches our company’s objectives--to measure social conditions and progress, to activate more individual giving and expand empathy and connection in service of helping people meet societal needs, and to power more philanthropic capital to flow to the charitable sector and improve our world. We believe that those that connect to our work will both be able to put the normal challenges into relative proportion as well as help us overcome these inevitable challenges. Our benefits package is quite good for our stage of development and includes all the normal elements (health, PTO, 401k, stock options, etc.) and will continue to evolve as we mature. Please be sure to share your suggestions directly with your manager, HR and our leadership team. We thank you for your engagement and look forward to working together to make Posiba an even better place to work
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