Pros
Altada have a 4-day work week which is the best benefit ever - even better than having your salary paid on time. The CEOs constantly remind employees that they are part of the Altada family - they care about employee wellbeing and mental health. The CEOs are inspiring 'serial entrepreneurs'. They have had multiple businesses that are now dissolved but that doesn't matter because they are smart and have won business related awards recently.
Cons
CEOs are the root cause of work-related mental health issues for employees. They lie about everything and don't know how to run a business. They make controversial and unethical decisions. The D&I culture they purport to have is non-existent. They only inclusive when it suits them. Altada adopts a blaming culture. When things go wrong CEOs never take accountability; they must put the blame on others when it's usually their fault. They make out that they’ve already closed deals with clients or have onboarded clients when they’re nowhere near finalizing projects. Vendors (including contractors) are never paid on time, if at all. If they don't ignore chasers, they make excuses: -there is a delay in transferring funds from the US account to the Irish account -they are undergoing a funding round or -the vendors are not delivering. No authority for anyone - it's CEO's way or no way. Challenge the CEO at all, you risk being fired. Weak leadership team. Dig too deep and ask questions around the accounts or the tech you will end up fired. They keep this top secret. CEOs indecisive. One minute they focus on financial services, the next they want to be a 'utility AI' leader (Google suggests utility AI is video game AI - Altada has never worked on this). CEOs unrealistically imitate big tech companies. They open global offices with no strategy, most of which have no Altada occupants. They have no merchantable product yet had approx. 70 tech employees and total of approx. 120 employees pre-layoffs. More focused on hiring tech people than other departments. CEOs authorized a DisneyWorld trip (essentially a company-paid vacation) for employees with children - those without weren't allowed to go. They brushed over the fact that some people don't have children and then would misleadingly label this as an Altada family “team trip” on social media. They even said there would be an event/party for all employees later in the year - employees with children would have benefitted more than those without if this had gone ahead. There are no announcements when employees leave the company - although that may because Altada secretly has a high turnover? CEOs treat employees like disposables. If you’re no longer useful, you’re either fired or moved into departments they think is best for you - they make you believe that you would be good where they want you, you don't get to oppose. CEO can test employees to see if they are able to work after working hours on 'time sensitive' projects. CEO tends to pretend tasks are really urgent - to put pressure on employees.
