Terrible Company, Terrible Management - Anonymous employee Shield AI Employee Review

1.0
31 Oct 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not much, pretty decent pay but not competitive for experience. Hopefully a company where equity will actually pay off, but seems like the leadership team is far from achieving that goal, if ever.

Cons

Terrible management. No leadership, only slave drivers who are given more responsibility and promotions for being hard lined with no empathy. Even if you have many years of experience and work your tail off from sun up to sun down, if your manager thinks they are better (this is always the case), you get run out of the company or given a bad review. Ivy League doesn’t equal good leadership. Male dominated culture where tons of women left the company and nothing was done by legal/hr/leadership.

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Shield AI Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback, we do listen to feedback and take it to heart. Our company value of pursuing excellence is very important to us as the work we do requires excellence in our pursuit to protect service members and civilians. We are investing in our leaders' development to improve our overall culture and employee experience. We are always looking for ways to improve the employee experience, and we have made some good progress, and will continue to listen to feedback and work to improve. Thank you.

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