Pros
Free anxiety. Rapid aging. Trauma bonding with equally burned-out coworkers. A front-row seat to how not to build a company.
Cons
This company is a masterclass in how not to run a business. The senior leadership team is the root of the rot: a clique of egotistical, self-aggrandizing opportunists who mistake chaos for strategy and control for competence. They stifle good ideas, override expertise, and demand loyalty over logic. If you try to bring structure or advocate for your team, you’ll get gaslit, sidelined, or quietly pushed out. Any illusion of a “fun, scrappy tech startup” wears off fast, like snake oil under a spotlight. What’s left is a soul-sucking environment built on fear, manipulation, and constant churn. Turnover is nonstop in every department. When people leave—and they do, often—their workload just gets dumped on whoever’s left. No reprioritization. No appreciation. Just more expectations and a forced smile. If this company could save a dollar, it would replace you with a monkey on a typewriter, slap a “rockstar” sticker on its cage, and still find a way to blame you when things go wrong. Your ideas don’t matter. Your well-being doesn’t matter. What matters is obedience and output—at all costs. The company used to brag about its “core values,” including “work-life alignment,”which quickly became a running joke. Mention it and you’d get a smirk or a sarcastic comment. Boundaries are treated like disloyalty. Meanwhile, leadership brings in a revolving door of overpaid yes-men who contribute little and protect each other while the rest of the company burns. HR isn’t just ineffective, they actively make things worse. I saw them enable discriminatory behavior, ignore serious safety concerns, and contribute to the toxicity themselves. Casual racism and inappropriate comments were brushed off, and speaking up meant risking retaliation. The DEI talk? Just noise. This place will drain your time, energy, and self-worth, then spin up a rebrand and pretend the problem was you.