Tech Demigod Heavy - Beware - Anonymous employee OpenAI Employee Review

2.0
21 Sept 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Extremely well funded -Cutting edge technology -Highly intelligent colleagues, most are nice -Great office - once you're inside, versus the neighborhood -Good food -Good enough employee benefits and perks

Cons

-Ego all day, every day - so much ego - all the demigods -Perfection expectation culture - masked as "high performance" -Severe lack of executive leadership, alignment, communication - executives are too busy being impressed with themselves to run an effective business -Strong sense of employee frustration with the immaturity of leaders - lots of "play along to get along" with managers

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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