Personal and Professional Fulfillment, With A Side Of Burnout - Anonymous employee BetterUp Employee Review

Fast Paced environment has steered the organization into making several poor strategic decisions. Been a revolving door of executive leadership in the past two years. Normally, the CEO will move trusted individuals apart of his inner-circle around to different departments, fulfilling a temporary need rather than focusing on long-term vision. Executives usually lack expertise in that line of business, which is glaring all across the board. Executive Leaders hired externally outside the organization have been a revolving door, and majority don't even make it a year before the CEO decides to put in one of his guys to run the department. A lack of career growth opportunities. While you may get a very challenging and rewarding professional experience working in this high growth startup environment, BetterUp is a workplace that lacks in career opportunity. This is especially true in the GTM organization. As the company has grown, they have emphatically decided to hire externally for positions with work experience in top companies. Leaders will never consider internal candidates who've demonstrated success for positions and have aspirations to grow. So the expectation is you remain "in your seat" until the organization restructures your team. While the organization will cite leaders receiving growth opportunities and promotions, it is reserved for the C-Level and Upper Management. This lack of growth and recognition leads to the adverse effect of Burnout. BetterUp's strenuous work environment moving at a rapid pace, with no clear career development path, has led to a tired and burnout workforce. Even the executive team knows its a problem. They don't provide long-term solutions, instead just encourage their employees to take a vacation and utilize their coach to work through challenges. There have been more individuals that I know have left the organization voluntarily now then in any point in the organization's work history, despite the lack of stability in the hiring market currently. People are tired of constantly running around the hampster wheel, and I don't blame them for it.