The toxic culture you read about in books - Anonymous SeekOut Employee Review

A few individuals are the very definition of toxic and they hold the rest of the company in a constant swirl of anxiety, frustration, and feeling gaslighted. On the surface leadership espouses how much they care about culture and gratitude, but under the covers they protect and even participate in belittling, undermining, disrespecting, and cutthroat behaviors. They believe they are better than everyone else and never look in the mirror at the destruction and pain they are wreaking in almost all areas of the company. The insidious part is that they hide their behavior behind the excuse of having “high standards” and every attempt to call attention to their behavior is twisted into blaming those that speak up. All who try to change things for the better are systematically discredited and discarded. You’ll learn about the long history of victims that have gone through this when you join. When you look at the quality of the product you’ll understand that they are actually not competent at leading a team that can build a great product or support great sales and CS teams. Overall this place could be great. They operate in an interesting product space and have some great people working there, but the fact that leadership not only fails to protect its employees from the toxicity, but protects and rewards it, is unacceptable. Everyone should avoid this place unless looking for an immersive lesson in workplace toxicity.