Pros
-If you live near an office, the Indeed facilities are incredible -Initial compensation / benefits package was competitive and included a generous sign-on bonus -PTO policy is extremely generous -I made long-lasting connections and relationships with US based co-workers
Cons
I've worked with startups before - I know how the game works. But I've never seen anything like this before. This place absolutely reeks of legal negligence, employee abuse, and just overall poor example from the top down. Pursuing another opportunity was one of the best professional decisions I've made in a long time. -You will likely be on a "Global team" however, most of leadership and middle management resides in the UK. If you are based in the US, get ready to buckle down to be treated as a red-headed stepchild and learn to figure it out on your own, because you will only have two and a half working hours a day with your reporting manager. I'm not sure how many proximity bias trainings they pushed onto us, but it clearly hasn't been a bit effective. -People managers are all above-average individual contributors and have no prior experience having direct reports and are given zero training to do so appropriately. -The GM/founder of the initial app technology is clearly either bitter or in hot water with Indeed executives with current performance - And he loves to take it out on all employees versus being an adult and communicating to team leads on what needs to change. -Salary bands have not been updated in almost 3 years, and overall compensation packages are some of the worst in the industry. -Silent layoffs occur quarterly. Leadership gaslights when it gets brought up and is disregarded as "noise". -Your team will be severely understaffed and the list of things to do on a weekly basis should be reserved for an entire team of people. I seriously couldn't even tell you what my job description was by the time I left. Not to mention that quarterly goals are changed week over week so it's not like your output will mean anything after only a few days. -Speaking of strategy? LOL there is no strategy - Goals are set on a quarterly basis and if your team has a fiscal year strategy, it will be completely irrelevant after only a couple of months. -HR team is wonderful, however, they are (understandably) slammed with work on a daily basis, and is very hard to get issues across to unless it is an absolute emergency. -You are probably required to do 3 hours of training per month, and your performance-based bonus will be held over you if you do not have the time to complete them. This is a condensed list, I promise. Again, I understand that this is a startup environment - But how many (unprofitable) years will things need to be unchanged under the same leadership before the needle finally moves? Only take a job here if you absolutely need the paycheck.
