Nightmare Blunt Rotation - Anonymous employee Redesign Health Employee Review

It's not hyperbole to say that Redesign Health is now a zombie company, with most of its employee base actively disengaged and seeking outside employment. The company's core product is centered around cosplaying as a well-liked and well-networked venture builder to potential founders, when in reality all major players in digital health avoid them like the plague. The company sealed its fate by making a series of irreversible blunders over the past 3 years, including but not limited to: 1) Hiring 10+ highly seasoned healthcare operators to act as advisors for each incubated company and then promptly laying them all off, permanently lowering Redesign's standing in the healthcare community. 2) Executing three rounds of deep layoffs, with many of the groups affected including core functional areas that were marketed to founders as long-term platform resources that disappeared overnight. 3) Consistently falling short of fundraising goals, value creation efforts, and exit outcomes, to the dismay of investors and partners that trusted Redesign with their time and capital. 4) Failing to address team burnout from all of the above. There is less transparency than ever from this leadership team, and virtually no development opportunities for remaining team members. Ostensibly the strategy here is to treat employees so poorly that they quit so that the company no longer needs to worry about paying severance or benefits. The CEO has given up on pretending to be bullish on the company he built, and openly lashes out at employees that dedicated years of their lives to Redesign's mission. These days no decision gets made without the CEO's approval, even when it comes to trivial items like hiring decisions and marketing minutiae. His cabal of 3-4 remaining confidants are among the least ethical and often downright mean people I've encountered in my career. Most are still here due to natural selection; any dissenting opinions would have already been snuffed out. While its tough to say what's next for Redesign, the framing of recent "wins" probably guarantees another 8-12 months of survival for the company. I'd expect some additional silent trimming of extraneous resources over the coming months as the company looks to further extend runway. Until then, employees will continue to coast as they search for their next role.