Pros
management have a pulse and are allegedly human, this is what I’ve heard anyway. Even tho all evidence points to the contrary.
Cons
where do I begin. I will echo most of what is written here, as I saw it first hand in the room with the senior leaders and they are beyond clueless. I will also offer this: 1. To summarize it is NOT friendly to women. It’s a hateful experience. They have gender pay gaps and they don’t care and continue to perpetuate them. They gaslight and lie and make you feel less competent even though you’re not. It’s like being in an abuse relationship that leaves you with ptsd. 2. The csuite has zero idea how to build and scale a company. They let anyone go who advises them of how to do it and then they lie on their names. 3. The ceo and fellow founders are aggressively hostile and refuse to admit they don’t know what they’re doing, what they’re productizing, how they will sell and market it, and worse….if it even works or if it’s safe. 4. They suck up money from Saudi and nefarious places and spend it like drunken sailors on shore leave. 5. They do NOT pay employees correctly and avoid paying overtime wages. Contact what’s left of the ny department of labor, maybe the traumatized former employees need to get together and start a class action. I’d join it. 6. They fire employees after they use them up for their product demos, because all that matters is getting that sweet Saudi aramco cash. 7. The product may not work. They lie about the safety of it. They are not truthful about its limitations and use other technology to give the impression it works so the $$ keeps flowing in. 8. The technology is dangerous and they have little regard for safety. 9. The leaders lie. They are not truthful individuals. Including management right under the ceo. Makes sense though, since they’re incompetent and always attempting to cover it up. 10. It’s not clear what the product is or what they’re selling. Some think it’s IP, some think it’s canisters, some think it’s a tractor or a boat (LOL). The confusion is what I imagine Greek rush week at MIT to be. 11. They promote people who are yes men. They do not pay and promote on merit. 12. They make up jobs for people that don’t fit their skills, mainly because they have no skill. I’m speaking specifically to project management. How many jobs will they shove people into before one sticks? Makes you wonder if there are relationships that keep people employed. Hint: yes. It’s nepotism at its finest. Wouldn’t shock me if a sexual harassment suit doesn’t happen. 13. They have trouble getting people to join and have to promise the moon and stars, which they can’t deliver on. Asking people to move when they knew building an energy company in Brooklyn was a bad idea. 14. They let some former operations person scoop up as much rental space in BK as the money could buy when they were a logistical nightmare and had NO CLUE what they were doing, causing those contracts to be bought out. More wastefulness of money.