Elevate TechFest Reviews

This place will stagnate your career at best, and destroy it if you let it. Projects are routinely neutered and deadlines are impossible ensuring that when you leave you’ll leave with nothing to show for your time here. “Aim high” is a thing you say, never a thing you actually do. Standards are nonexistent. No desire to improve on anything. This place burns through creatives. My 1.25 years here made me qualify as “long-term”. No leadership. Consistently set up for failure. Important tasks are done backwards if at all. CEO is obsessed with design and as a result will listen to nothing you say unless you’re agreeing with him. Staff routinely cherry picks the feedback they want to hear. Misreporting is celebrated. Can’t learn from mistakes because mistakes are never acknowledged. Between Nov - March 2021 many new people were hired. By April 2021 nearly every new hire reported feeling burnt out. Severely mismanaged. New employees forced to come into office unnecessarily during a pandemic. New employees given no guidance, taking sink or swim to an extreme. Looks like they’re doing good from the outside, but is not as it appears to the world. My personal and professional morals were challenged on multiple occasions.

- initially sounds like a fantastic company, but once you’re in you realize how unstructured, chaotic, and selfish the leadership team is - misleads and releases false information to the public to make it seem like this tech fest is in high demand...when in reality we are well below target and not meeting expectations - fair warning: the job you sign up for is not the job you will be doing. 95% of employees end up being pressured by leadership team to change roles based on their needs, has absolutely no regard or care to your professional growth or career. - this event is a one hit wonder (2017), and sets unrealistic numbers for the team to achieve. They publicly state they project 10,000 attendees, false, completely false. - the majority of employees are unhappy and overly stressed out - large number of employees are looking for the next opportunity while working here - expect set timelines for deliverables to be delayed or forgotten about until it becomes a ‘red flag’ - high stress environment, walk on egg shells, feels like everyone has scatter brains - unnecessary DAILY standups and 3 hours long bi-weekly all hands meeting (waste of time and productivity) - this company is the biggest catfish STAY AWAY!!!!!