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FreeWire Technologies Reviews

3.4

45% would recommend to a friend

(51 total reviews)
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Arcady Sosinov

60% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

FreeWire Technologies has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 51 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FreeWire Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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51 reviews
1.0
5 Sept 2023

Hopeless leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company had good funding to sustain till recently. Opportunity to work on a new technology.

Cons

- COO is a narcissist who makes idiotic decisions every day yanking people from one task to another depending on the fire that day. Has zero professionalism. Does not listen to anyone. Keeps yapping in meetings about how great he was at every job. - No one in the leadership has a vision or zeal to execute the plans. Instead of taking tough decisions to build products and make company successful, they all just make dumb decisions everyday and let projects slip and fail. - Every department fights with another and wait for an opportunity gloat over other's failures instead of working together. This includes the VP's. - No one in the company is happy except for the few people who joined recently and haven't seen the complete picture. - People who brown nose get promoted irrespective of work output and talent.

1.0
15 May 2019

good idea / bad company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

free ev charging at work

Cons

engineering constantly under extreme stress building products on impossible timelines. senior leadership is inexperienced and without vision. salaries are extremely low for bay area and stock options are limited without potential

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FreeWire Technologies Response
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We appreciate current and former employees feedback. 1. Our salaries and stock options align with the compensation range for a Series A startup. All employments are At Will. 2. A startup is a stressful environment. Working in a startup can be tough with a heavy workload and busy schedule. One's accomplishments are readily recognized! One's failure is also readily noticed! 3. FreeWire leaders are experienced. Beside being visionary, they drive results, creating engagement and identify innovation opportunities. FreeWire continues to evolve and improve as the company embarks on the next phase of our journey to success!
1.0
30 Nov 2022

Narcissistic C*Os

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good sales team Good funding Some parts of the company are fun to work with

Cons

* An unstable COO with clinical narcissistic tendencies. Disrespectful to everyone, especially his subordinates, he steers the company in the wrong direction in every possible way. Innately treats everyone as a competitor and can be seen taking credit for someone else's work, including CEO's, CFO's and legal team's. Yes, legal team. A micromanager with a very scattered focus. Always wreaks havoc in decision making through his judgments which leads to long term failures for the company. No one under him has experienced meaningful growth in the past few years, and he enjoys pitting his direct reports against each other. This will adversely affect the company's products and services from engineering, supply chain, manufacturing and field service. As a result, every VP and every executive unit has low morale. * Terrible HR management with no experience in hi-tech. Very adamant, argumentative and extremely unhelpful. * An internal salary study concluded that most employees at the Bay Area location were paid "significantly less" than a reputable compensation survey among companies of similar size and domain. HR policies and C-suite executive management greed have left everyone in the company with equity plans, with nothing to show for all the hard work.

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