Clear Direction, Strong Support - Frontend Team Lead Secondmind Employee Review

- Welcoming work environment with lots of excellent people. - Clear communication and direction from leadership - Great on-boarding process with a clear story. - Flexible on working location and hours of work. - Well organised behind the scenes. - Research directly effects product.

- I would like a London office.

• Some fantastic employees. • Opportunities to learn about SotA probabilistic modelling/Bayesian optimisation approaches

• Management seem to keep making the same mistakes, ignoring feedback from employees, and then when things fail they will say that the problems were unforeseeable. • There's been two sets of redundancies in a 7 month period. During this, management has tended to be unaffected, or have received title bumps. • Low morale had led to a major brain drain of the best talent at the company. The company is around half the size that it was a year prior, and continues to shrink. • Constant restructures, imposed top-down. • Little avenue for growth. While this isn't unusual for small companies, Secondmind had used "number of promotions" as a metric when deciding who to make redundant, ignoring the fact that it's easy to get in a position where you cannot be promoted unless your boss quits.