The Least People-Centric Startups I've Experienced - Manager Novelship Employee Review

3.0
30 Aug 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Products, Tech & Marketing Teams are pretty passionate, professional, and always put the company first

Cons

Chris can be seemingly unprofessional at times and let his temperament/anger get the better of him. He will not hesitate to let his anger be known through obvious banging of the tables, putting things down harshly (I am refraining from using "slamming" though I believe that's how most people would describe if they experience it) so that it is clear he is unhappy about something. Such violent tendency can be quite scary if you are the lone female staff left in the office, which is in a relatively vast industrial building, in the evening or over the weekends. Richard can at times be seemingly too disconnected from the ground as he focuses on getting the necessary funding. While that is good for the business, he does not have first-hand on-the-ground experience of what the employees are feeling, or what the customers are thinking. --- As the team is pretty lean, there's definitely opportunities to progress from a career progression/development standpoint, to take on senior leadership positions and learn new skills. However, due to the seemingly incompetent leadership among the founders, if the business can't progress faster than expected, one's career development will also be limited. C-level managers/HODs are really the backbone of the leadership. They are relatively passionate, professional, and skilled. However, in the face of incompetent leadership at the founders level, they are very much restricted as well. Culture wise, the team members had tried to create a very inclusive and fun culture. However, I severely marked it down because Values carry more weight in my opinion, and this company has no people-centric values. The proclaimed wolf culture is non-existent.

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Thank you for your time and we take this feedback very seriously. We will conduct internal review to investigate this further. We are sorry that your experience is less than satisfactory but thankful for the feedback nonetheless. Wishing you all the best in your career.

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