Trainwreck in progress - Anonymous employee Ethika Employee Review

1.0
8 Jun 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

*Before Matt Cook returned in 2023 and disrupted everything, there was a good interim CEO. This guy held company-wide meetings and addressed the workforce with gratitude and treated them like humans. Unfortunately, this interim CEO was replaced by the current fear-monger Cook.

Cons

*Company morale is in the toilet being flushed several times a week. *Little company direction, because the CEO is insane. *Most employees, with very few exceptions (because they're too new to know any better), want to leave. *The current CEO, Matt Cook, exhibits a shocking lack of morals and empathy. His dismissive and condescending attitude creates a toxic work environment. He frequently disappears for weeks or months, then re-emerges not to inspire, but to demoralize the team. Instead of spreading positivity, he unleashes crazy personal attacks through emails that go far beyond typical "out of touch" CEO behavior into outright abuse. Like the Wizard of Oz, he hides in his corner office, too cowardly to face the staff after his tirades. His leadership style can best be described as passive aggressive, megalomaniacal, and excessively domineering. This might be tolerable if he had any positive leadership qualities, but he does not. His only solution to problems (that he himself causes due to his jack-in-the-box style leadership) is to fire people. He has dismissed many loyal employees who helped build the company from the ground up, offering no severance or warning. Matt Cook's leadership is driven by an insatiable thirst for power and control, always seemingly at the expense of employee morale and well-being.

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Cons

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1.0
27 Aug 2025
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Pros

ZERO!!!!!!! Dont believe the good reviews.

Cons

Don’t believe any of the good reviews, their HR department and chief of staff are likely asking employees to write good reviews like they have done in the past to try and cover up some of the HONEST bad reviews. This company is the most toxic and terrible place you could ever work. They treat employees like trash. The ceo and his chief of staff he has running the company are two of the worst people you will ever encounter. They have no clue how to run a company, don’t know how to treat employees with even an ounce of respect, the company is failing and has zero direction and everyone is constantly wondering what is even going on or what is expected. They will get rid of your entire department with zero notice and expect you to pick up the pieces and manage everything with zero support and when you can’t manage it, or don’t know how to do it since it was never in your job description and they give you zero support, they will lay you off and put the work on someone else. This place is truly a disgrace and I highly recommend you run for the hills and don’t work for this company just because it’s a “cool” brand. It’s not cool anymore, the designs are terrible and the company is becoming irrelevant. You won’t be paid well, you won’t be promoted, you’ll end up laid off or fired like the 100+ other employees over the last year.

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