Phantom Therapeutics - Anonymous employee Huma Employee Review

1.0
26 Aug 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There is none to mention.

Cons

Here is how this company operates at its core: 1) The CEO goes to a potential "partner", asks them what they need, and claims that "Huma's platform" can solve their problem via simple quick "configurations". 2) The CEO comes to the CTO and asks him to hack together a minimal unsustainable feature set that can be sold as the solution to that problem. 3) The CTO pulls a few all-nighters and slave-drives the engineers, while sufficiently threatening and belittling them at the same time, to hack together that minimal solution as quickly as possible. 4) The CEO pretends that all they did was to "configure" their "platform". The CEO and his pals, especially the Chief Medical Officer, who are brilliant BS artists, also sell this story to the investors. The reality is there is no "platform", and there is no "configuration". One way to think about it is that "nothing" can be "configured" to solve anything. You just need to "configure" your "nothing" by hacking together a minimal point solution to that thing. And interestingly, "nothing" even has some great attributes: it is disease-agnostic, device-agnostic, cloud-agnostic, everything-agnostic, because it is nothing after all. Isn't that great? This is sold to investors as part of the magic of Huma: x-agnostic "platform" for whatever x your heart may desire. All this is now known by every single employee in the company, but the investors in Huma have gotten badly duped, and I wonder when they will realize what actually happened.

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5.0
10 Dec 2023
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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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