UPshow Reviews

Where do I begin? If you're a job seeker, run. If you're a customer or potential customer, also run. I've never spoken negatively online about a past employer, but the public deserves to know what kind of people are behind UPshow - cold, unethical, conniving, the list goes on. The CEO, Adam Hirsen, eliminated the positions of several people in a reorganization and I was impacted. But he had his co-founder, Matt Gibbs, and HR do the dirty work. I'll outlined how they did it and you'll get a complete picture of who UPshow is behind the curtain. Matt texted me on my personal cellphone last night under the guise that our CTO needed the login information for our social media accounts to do an integration. I asked if it could wait until first thing Monday morning and he said that the CTO really needs it before 6:30am because that's the time his work day starts. Trusting his word, I logged in late Sunday night to send the CTO that information. Simple enough, right? Wrong. I woke up to having no access to those social media accounts. Matt lied. They knew what was coming and lied to me to gain access and switch the passwords last night. Then an email came through this morning AFTER getting multiple emails about my access being revoked, one platform by one, to different work tools. That email was several paragraphs of BS from Adam about a reorganization. I say it's BS because no real details of the 'why' behind the reorg were shared. He coldly stated that if we get an email with a calendar invite for a conversation this morning, that means our position was impacted. One by one, my coworkers and I each ended up getting that calendar invite. On the call were Matt Gibbs and HR. No Adam in sight. How cold and cowardly can one be? They said positions are terminated effective immediately. And we'll only get our severance package once we return the company equipment. The severance package is TWO WEEKS worth of pay. TWO WEEKS! It's a slap in the face. Matt's performance was ridiculous - he really tried to fake empathy. Obviously I saw right through it. I told them how it's also absurd that a promotion and raise were dangled in front of me for MONTHS after I was successfully doing my ex-bosses job for three months after she left. I can only assume they knew what was coming. I saved them so much money and ran the entire social media and content practice myself. For what? Only to be screwed in the end. I'm happy to no longer work for a company that continually lied to its employees for months saying that fundraising was going well only to use their lack of financial stability as the reason for the reorg and cutting several positions across departments. Please do not trust this company or its leadership

There is a significant problem with the leadership at this company. The CEO is completely unhinged, lacks strategic vision and does not care about employees. Anything he wants will happen regardless of data or feedback. No one wanted the hybrid work policy, but the CEO did...so guess what happened? RIP flexible work schedule. There's a mentality that if the CEO can't see you in person, you aren't working or doing a good job. Funny when half the team is in another country. No amount of bad free lunches, ice cream socials, happy hours when people get let go and other forced activities will make up for the way the back to office policy was handled. I've never worked for an organization that so blatantly had interoffice politics at play. If you aren't an UPshow lifer, you will be treated very differently and your opportunity to advance within the company will suffer. There is also no diversity within the company whatsoever. The benefits are not great. The product is mediocre at best, but leadership doesn't want their egos hurt to admit the issues and fix them. If you value your work and consider yourself a decent human I would avoid working here at all costs. It can be hard interviewing and you always think people are scorned who write reviews, but trust what you are hearing and read between the lines. You'll be glad you did.