Great co-workers, poor company - Anonymous employee XY Labs Employee Review

Thank you for contributing feedback. It's fantastic to hear that you found our work environment to be "relatively relaxed." Although, I'd say you were probably an exception! XY/XYO is typically described as very fast-moving! It's also excellent to hear that you found your work to be enjoyable! I'll be sure to log your comment on paying being OK. And, of course, we love how Diverse our Staff is. Regarding your Cons, thank you so much for providing your honest feedback. I understand how devastating and hard our recent downsizing was, and believe me, our entire team, including our Co-founders, are hurting emotionally just as much as anyone. Regarding the "cringe-worthy cult of a personality around one of the founders", I can only infer you're relating to the show he does for our community and followers. I personally took your concern to him and he takes your comment very seriously. We can only say that he is very excited and energetic about what he does. He believes in the vision of our company and what we're building and if it comes across as "cultish", then he intends to address this. Thank you for commenting on how diverse in race, gender and age our company is! We believe this is one of the reasons XYO is so great, and we intend to keep it this way! The best teams are the ones that are comprised of different backgrounds and provide different perspectives. Regarding comments of crude, misogynistic and borderline racist comments, I assure you this does not reflect our culture and values and we will make a point to ensure this does not continue forward in any way. Regarding your feedback on our leadership having "Questionable business expertise", we believe that the previous structure and strategy reflected this, which is why we needed to make such a drastic change to our operations, focus and re-align with our vision. While it's only been a week since undertaking our new vision, we have made strides on the items you present as Cons with our previous business strategy, and we are extremely excited about the future. Thank you so much for your feedback and we hope to one day make you proud for being a part of what we're building.