Shellbeehaken: A Masterclass in How Not to Run a Tech Company - Software Intern ShellBeeHaken Employee Review

The CEO runs the company like a personal ego project—always talking, rarely listening, and often prioritizing self-image over actual progress. Plays favorites (especially with certain employees), while the rest face inconsistent treatment and shifting rules. Nepotism is alive and well: the CEO’s brother holds a management role despite lacking technical knowledge or leadership experience. No real infrastructure: there’s no DevOps team, no CI/CD pipelines, no Docker. Deployment = push to main → CEO manually runs a script on EC2. Outdated and inefficient practices in design and development: messy codebase, poor schema design, and questionable UI decisions. Employee support is minimal. Even basic requests, like a dual-monitor setup, are dismissed if you’re given a Mac, which is treated more like a relic than a tool. Compensation is far below industry standards. Raises are symbolic at best—two years of hard work might get you a small increase that doesn’t match inflation, let alone performance. The culture discourages innovation and collaboration. Ideas are judged more on who says them than their actual merit.