Needs Improvement - Anonymous employee True Anomaly Employee Review

1.0
31 Jul 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company’s vision and goals are impressive. The speed at which they develop spacecraft is remarkable. There are plenty of opportunities to explore new roles due to the extensive workload.

Cons

The work environment is unhealthy. Leadership and management set unrealistic schedules and standards, then express surprise when employees struggle to meet them. Management often belittles the efforts required, suggesting they could easily handle the tasks themselves. There's a clear divide between the “in” crowd, who make decisions and disregard others’ suggestions and opinions, and the “out” crowd. Communication from upper management is inadequate, and there's poor communication between teams. The strong desire to stand out and be different from other companies often ends up harming the company. The reasons for layoffs were never fully explained, despite the company continuing to hire. Some layoffs seemed aimed at removing individuals who openly disagreed with management.

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True Anomaly Response
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We acknowledge that TA has been a very rapid-moving start-up, learning as we go, and some aspects could have been better. This is why, as you know being a current employee, we have created a new communications architecture, restructuring among many things, bi-monthly All Hands Meetings. We’ve had two of these meetings in the past month, followed up with all-company employee survey, soliciting anonymous employee feedback about the meetings, with a request for agenda topics. We also host AMA’s at the end of every meeting where we answer any question asked, and summarize themes. Even (our CEO) addressed the reason for layoffs in May when they occurred, again during the all-company offsite, and most recently in our last All Hands a week ago. We understand that layoffs are scary and disruptive, however these occurred more than 5 months ago and the restructure was necessary for the future success of the business. We hope you will be able to move on and move forward. We sincerely encourage you to be solution-oriented and proactive with your feedback internally to the company. If feel you aren’t being heard internally, then reach out to someone on the Exec Team or People Team. Most of our employees are excited and invested in our future, and thus seek ways to better the business—we encourage you to do so as well if you feel this is the right company for you.

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