Upwave Reviews

1. Management will always tell you that you’re doing an amazing job, even going above and beyond what they expected of you. Management will then fire you, citing your performance for being the main reason (what?) 2. Only twelve weeks of maternity leave is offered, and only six weeks is covered by the company. For the remaining six weeks, you will need to apply through the state of CA to receive your pay. A huge sore spot and definitely not competitive compared with the rest of the bay area. There is no way that Survata should even be in the running as a top place for women to work with a policy like that, but okay. 3. You may get to work closely with the old CEO/CRO of Boost Media. Look up his Glassdoor review. This ship is run the exact same way. Also, you’ll get to work with many of the old Boost Media population, some of which do not even get interviewed before starting at Survata. 4. Management will always listen to you when there is something wrong (e.g. your workload is too heavy, processes could be improved, a coworker is making your life difficult). They will not, however, do anything to fix the situation. They will listen but will not act. Down the line, when they realize that there is a problem that needs to be fixed because a client has brought it up, they’ll ask why you didn’t bring this up sooner. Unless the coworker who is making your life difficult is in sales, where your voice will not be heard at all and you’ll be looked at as “not being a team player”. Ok. 5. You may be chosen to interview your future coworkers, because management “values” your opinion. But, if you say that the team should not hire the person, you will be shot down immediately by management. If over half of your team says that you should not hire the person, you will still be shot down by management. So your opinion is not valued. You may also have to stay until 7 PM to interview someone (an individual contributor, not even a manager). However, if the future employee is from Boost Media, then you will not meet the person as they aren’t even going to pretend to value your opinion here. 6. No flexible work from home schedule (there used to be, now it depends on who your manager is to decide how flexible this is) 7. Talked down to by most members of management. 8. Goals constantly changing so you have no idea what to focus on. 9. Hiring pipeline is never full enough so everyone is overworked. 10. Favoritism (you’ll know if you’re not the favorite. Hint: you’re not an old white dude). 11. No diversity and inclusion program in place. 12. Expected to work long hours (nights, weekends). Management will not believe you if you tell them that you had to work such long hours unless they are on any email threads or you tagged them in a shared doc that you were working on after hours. 13. Management would "rather have a team of B-players that are 'team players' than a team of A-players". Because everyone knows you win with a team of second string players.