Poorly managed, turnover too high to grow - Software Engineer Energybox Employee Review

1.0
18 Dec 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can feel good about trying to improve businesses while contributing to a green economy.

Cons

You are taken advantage for trying to improve businesses while contributing to a green economy. Extremely underpaid, with no career growth, and no equity given when joining. When equity was offered, the management team tried changing the vesting schedule from what was in the signed contract. Pretended it was a one off innocent mistake - however I confirmed with multiple colleagues that it was not. Management team did not reach out to these colleagues to make it right. There is a huge rift between the Hong Kong and Nashville sites. No one was on the same page. The CEO is a good salesman, but when we were on a team as part of an offsite it was clear that he had no idea what he was talking about. Talked about trying to benchmark data across sites, but it didn't make any sense (not even at a high level - I understand he's not a data scientist). I actually quite like him on a personal level - but the entire management team just absolutely lacked the required engineering understanding to build a stable platform. Way too focused on signing new customers, while existing customers had so many issues they were refusing to pay.

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5.0
29 Jan 2025
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Pros

Good communication, Well talented team, Accessibility

Cons

No much cons. Premium product so market is not ready to spend since lack of awarness.

1.0
30 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The only pros this company had was Monday WFH and that brief period of time where we worked remotely 3 days a week because the wifi in their temporary office was running on dial up fumes.

Cons

They told all their customers "we're looking into this for you" and ignored all their problems for months and years. I was forced to lie to my clients about getting problems resolved. They hated me because I wanted the clients to be cared for. If I didn't leave before their layoffs I would have been thrown off the building roof as their first "sacrifice"

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