Namely Reviews

- The Company out and out lies to people during the hiring process so here is the truth as I see it and it is up to you to decide if you want to give it a shot - There is no upward mobility. - There is no unlimited vacation. - There is no real policy about anything..it all depends on the relationship you have with your manager. - There is a reorganization every two or three months where Matt, the CEO has a new and brilliant idea which of course changes the structure of the company. If you are useful you will survive a couple of them but eventually you will either be deemed talented and threatening or untalented and useless, frequently both. Code words will of course be used but that is it. - The benefits are pretty terrible. Just to be clear, there will never be a bonus or a 401k matching so negotiate your salary accordingly. - There is a monthly meeting where Matt Straz will say fashionable buzz words for an hour and then dinner is provided. Occasionally someone else will contribute some buzzwords. Go home unless you really have no idea what to have for dinner.

I left Namely at the beginning of 2017 and wanted to take a few months (about 5) to think about what I wanted to write as a review of this company as I spent about 18 months there. I had some really great experiences, but some also really bad ones. Most of my bad experiences were attributed to poor managers in the wrong role. Since I left I have heard that my manager was fired and the CFO was let go. Both didn't have a clear understanding of what needed to actually be done and how to get it done. They also had very little sense of priority. Everything was urgent. Nothing was thought through. I expect this from junior managers not from C level executives. There was clear favoritism on the team and when I approached my manager about it I was told I wasn't "likable enough" whatever that means. There were some voices of reason that tried to help me in other departments but nothing really stuck. I was asked when I put in my resignation if I ever thought about going to HR. The answer is no. Reason being is those who post on here that HR bullies for reviews and asks people to write them or sends you what you should write on here it's 100% true. During my first month at the company I was casually talking to one of the women from HR and she asked if I would leave a positive review about the company on glassdoor. I told her I didn't feel like I had enough experience at the company yet to leave a review. Pretty much every month she would ping me on slack asking me and once went so far to send me some text I could copy and paste into a review. So do what you want with that information.