Toxic Culture - No Strategy Alignment - Anonymous employee Upsun Employee Review

1.0
8 May 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company has attracted some bright minds globally - you'll work with brilliant people with incredible resumes and industry-leading ideas.

Cons

Everyone wants to lead - and no one wants to listen. The Executive team relies entirely on their direct reports to hold up the strategy and daily tasks - but provides no clear, aligned message to all. Departments regularly work against each other on opposing goals, and communication is consistently difficult on a daily basis. Hard conversations are a part of every meeting, and your calendar is overrun with meetings with no clear goals. Slide decks are rampant but action items are never clearly defined or assigned. Egos fight on public slack channels, gossip, criticism, and arguments over budget are a daily occurrence. The culture has fragmented EMEA and US employees, and European employees rely on American employees to pick up the slack after long and often-taken vacations. Benefits are not equitable between the two groups, leading to further hostility. DEIA actions are a farce and the response and accountability from leadership is non-existent.

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Upsun Response
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While we’re disappointed to hear about your experience with us, I appreciate your recognition of our talent at Platform.sh. We have some of the brightest minds working at Platform.sh and are incredibly grateful to have them as part of our team. Our culture is built on open feedback, collaboration and fostering an environment where Platformers can openly share ideas. We review compensation & benefits packages globally and locally on an ongoing basis as part of our compensation strategy to ensure we remain competitive and compliant within each location and our goal, as part of our core value, has always been to be fair to all of our employees.

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