Pros
I sincerely do not have any pro's to say.
Cons
I walked into Solidcore like everyone else with whom I worked - beyond excited. However, this fairytale ended very quickly. The CEO champions herself on being this irreverent, "tell it how it is" go-getter who quotes herself. However, she is a self-centric, disillusioned individual with no ability to own up to her own mistakes and prioritizes growth over everything to nurse her ego. Anything that is handled poorly is blamed on the fact that [solidcore] is "a startup" and on the person raising the complaint for "not looking within to see if the blame should actually be placed on them". Highly advise to not buy into her solely podcast-backed self help preaching and to heed the multiple articles written about her or these Glassdoor reviews. Leadership chose to layoff 98% of her workforce 2 days into business shutting down over a 10-minute rehearsed Zoom call. This exact transcript somehow made itself into a separately recorded Instagram story and e-mail. Everything leadership does is for image, which in itself, is absolutely hilarious considering the multiple angry tirades, fear tactics, and meltdowns at all hands meetings. Have I mentioned that our turnover was astronomical, even prior to COVID-19? Tenured* (*, meaning anyone who lasted over a year, because that sadly is a measurable milestone here) folks have been FIRED with no notice or reason when they disagree with anything leadership says. A CFO, all regional managers, a vice president. Even a high up HR person left abruptly with so much as a goodbye. All in less than half a year. RED. FLAGS. EVERYWHERE. While I visited the office, the atmosphere was reflective of the fear-tactic instilled culture. Everyone was pin-drop silent. Leadership behind closed doors for hours with zero transparency. However, all the low morale, bad pay, and unstable direction / constantly changing directions fed to studio managers aside, let us talk about current events. Our leadership 1) forced front line studio staff to work well past when the president formally declared this pandemic, then, on social, denounced Trump supporters who did not take it seriously. 2) She aggressively reacted to someone on her public Facebook profile for inquiring how she laid of 98% of people two days into closing business but was on a yacht trip a week prior. A true leader does not stoop to this level. 3) Solidcore has started a #solidcorejustice hashtag in the wake of Ahmaud’s death. While some may say, that is incredible to see them making a stand – it is purely a marketing ploy, which is abhorrent. 4) I saved this one for last, but the emphasis on negative body image is just the cherry on top of our horrible culture (which, we were told over a mass call was deemed our fault, because “culture is not leadership’s responsibility, it’s ours”). There is a scale in smack dab in the kitchen. The idea that if we were not working out despite injuries etc., then we were lazy was constantly belabored. Yesterday night, our CEO uploaded a picture captioned “8 weeks of quarantine and still have my thigh gap. A mysterious victory indeed”. Then, she chose to screenshot a negative response to that post calling the individual out for hiding behind a keyboard. She then (once an individual chose to bring up the incendiary post's inappropriateness) wrote a novel of an email to the entire company implying this coach was inherently body shaming her for celebrating her thigh gap, and refused to own up to the fact that the post was completely unprofessional and sending a terrible message (all instead of focusing on how to develop the business during this time). If you are IN a place of power and are public, your platform is open backlash. If content you produce is misaligned to your company’s mission, be the strongest version of yourself…then surely, clients will be unhappy. All this to say that I vehemently dislike my experience here. When I was offered my job back post-PPP loan (which they purely hired us all back to squeeze the most money possible from the government), I had to accept it…otherwise I would not get unemployment and be job searching in less than ideal market conditions. If you are considering working here, please, look elsewhere. This place is burning into the ground.