Gross mis-management from the top - Anonymous employee Metromile Employee Review

1.0
9 Apr 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free lunch 3 days week, nice and laid-back culture

Cons

The company is grossly mis-managed from the top (CEO and CFO esp). The recent huge layoffs is the direct result of leadership sleeping at the wheel. They built up a huge team for growth, only recently find out that they are running out of money in the bank. When panic ensued, they over-react by layoffing 150+ ppl. They branded it as Coronavirus related but the fact is that they did not exercise enough foresight to be disciplined in hiring and expenditure. The company recently spent a bunch for a prime location on Market street in SF and only find now it is going to be half empty. There are so many poor to disastrous examples ranging from product, hiring, company culture and discipline.

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Cons

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5.0
15 Oct 2014
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Pros

We’ve got a great ~40 person team with really smart people that are also super fun to hang out with. Weekly happy hours, weekly beer o’clock during company demos, board game nights, karaoke, musical jam sessions, catered lunch 2x a week (sometimes 3 with in-house tech talks), are always expanding and growing, Product Managers who make it easy for you to do what you are good at, 2 week sprints / release cycles, subsidized Muni/Bart etc passes, $50/mo on gym & equipment, an amazing CEO who will also be your best bud but still someone you super respect, user-centered, and of course, car lovers. The compensation is market-rate and fair, with equity. Very flexible schedules so you don't have to worry about going to an appointment in the middle of the day or going home early for your kid's baseball game. People generally come in between 8-10 and leave between 5-7, and have a specific passion that they are working on here. Upper management cares about how you want to progress in your career, and give you plenty of opportunities to grow and learn. Very supportive team with a general sense of camaraderie, as evidenced by frequent nerf gun battles.

Cons

We're still a small startup, so there are some growing pains like small office (working on moving soon), and having to figure out best practices, processes, and work flows for your field through some trial and error, instead of having them already in place. However, it's still extremely rewarding and you have a lot of ownership in building company culture and processes for your specific field. In my 2+ year experience, the company has been pretty fast at iterating on working out kinks of being a small startup.

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