Phil Reviews

The lack of egos and ability to work together ends with middle management. None of the executives are responsive or accountable to their own teams or from what I could tell, each other. To make matters worse, the entire executive team is remote, a privilege reserved for them exclusively. This lack of cohesion and communication among senior leadership results in a lack of overall direction for the company; despite several avenues for growth and market disruption Phil could pursue, the focus of the company as a whole seems to be set based on whatever the CEO is interested in that week.

Phil has been a series of contradictions since it closed its last round of funding. Instead of using this money to promote people from within and pay their junior level employees fair wages, the new executives have started to lay off some of their longest-tenured employees, while hiring their friends and family members from their past companies. On top of that, the CEO has hired an executive team that is completely remote, and thus very out of touch with what's going on in the home office in San Francisco. As such, most people in San Francisco now have bosses that are remote, so everyone is able to hide from the CEO, whom everyone's a little scared of and is extremely difficult to work with. Maybe the new Head of Talent (yep, she's remote, too) will be able to affect some positive change. Beyond office politics, Phil offers: -below-market pay to their San Francisco employees -ten days PTO -inability for SF employees to work remotely -no transportation stipend (they quietly did away with that)