Pros
Good benefits and smart team members. Many people want to make a difference and believe in what the product represents. Does the product work? Employees chuckle about that because we really can't prove it but we would love to think so.
Cons
Leadership will bully and tokenize employees. They seem more worried about how the staff page looks vs actively listening to unique points of view. I felt silenced and it was a shared experience with other people of color. We didn't have a safe place to bring these issues up either. No one feels empowered to make decisions because, at the end of the day, the founders will tell you the “right” way to do something in a public Slack channel that makes you wish you never said anything at all. Both the founders are condescending to their employees and treat everyone as if we are beneath them. During an all-staff meeting, the married co-founders were texting "Are our employees dumb?" while screen sharing just because people asked questions. That quote also leaves out a word that would be against community guidelines... The “favorites” at Textio are the only ones to receive any praise or recognition. On Slack, everyone has their custom emoji with their face that they make for you on the day you're hired. Cute idea, right? Except for when there’s a post shouting out an entire team and 20 people respond with one person's face and 2 respond with another team member’s. Not very inclusive and extremely frustrating when the person with 2 reactions did more than the person with 20. Textio preaches that personality feedback is bad, meanwhile, multiple members of my team received this type of feedback often during verbal 1:1s, never written. Which is another Textio no-no. This is the least productive company I've ever worked for. There are no project managers so nothing gets done efficiently. Leadership and team directors/managers have different timelines and expectations, making everything feel urgent, and creating low-quality work. Textio acts woke, but they are just trying to monetize off of that appearance and can’t even create a safe or equitable space internally. This is extremely harmful because these people think they are educated and informed to talk about this space when they are actively causing more harm. I knew all of this was happening while working there, but since leaving it's become way more obvious how deeply problematic this company is.