Helcim Reviews

Have you ever lived in constant fear that you're about to be let go? Have you ever turned up to work and the person who you are sitting beside isn't there and their desk has been wiped clean? Trying to reach out to someone to introduce yourself but your email bounced because they've been let go last night after only being on board one month? Welcome to Hell Simulator 2000. You'll quickly get desensitized to hearing the company has parted ways with an employee, and literally no one is safe. Managers, senior leaders, and even top individual contributors are let go for seemingly no apparent reason, or because they can't hit some unobtainable target or KPI that has been set by "the board" or the CEO. It is quite fitting that the business specializes in POS systems because the CEO could certainly be branded with the same acronym, different meaning, if you catch my drift. Prepare to work on something and have the CEO meticulously micromanage the entire process - or even worse, force the marketing team to release it into the world months before it's even ready for even internal testing, making the whole customer experience hot garbage. It's an act of absolute desperation to conjure up some sort of relevancy because even the senior management knows it's a sinking ship. The CEO has also created a KPI that employees must work 50 hour weeks, even though this isn't in anyone's contract, and has offered incentives to employees that comply, as some sort of a cruel carrot-chasing treadmill burnout trap. This was offered instead of a salary raise after the company had publicly raised Series B, by the way. Don't like it? Sure, hand back your company laptop please and don't let the door hit you on the way out. Advice to interviewees: don't bother - you can do better. Don't be fooled by the colorful brand - it's smoke and mirrors from a previous era. You'll be grossly underpaid, overworked, and walking on eggshells until the day you are ruthlessly let go.

- Long working hours. Sacrifices in personal life expected - No respect for personal life. Even on vacation or important events, employees will be contacted through direct messages. Work-life balance next to zero. - Not so great benefits - Toxic work environment - superiority complex - Under-qualified Product team. Pushing forward with features with little research, disregards developers' concerns over best practices and security. Led to technical debt. - No clear direction or vision - things always getting rebuilt or scrapped. - Preach transparency and candidness, but upper management can't handle criticism or concerns and brushes them off. - Lots of Kool-Aid drinking and propaganda floating around the office. Upper management preaches false claims to boost morale. - Dinosaurs that think remote work is bad. Hybrid approach only a front to feel important and power trip over seeing employees in the office. - Low salaries - underpays by a large margin. Options are used as a bait. - Ignores employees mental health - normalizes burn out culture and over working - No accountability from upper management - will always shift the blame down the command line. Don't fall for their excuse that startups aren't for everyone or that employees are making an impact. This is just an excuse to justify their unethical work practices.