Pros
High paying. Nice office. Friendly coworkers. Interesting concept for a product.
Cons
Fear-based work environment. Leaders lack experience and regularly make poor decisions with no accountability. Low levels of empathy and work life balance. Also a little shady here and there. Leadership is consumed with everyone working in-person, despite billing themselves as innovative. Questioning leadership or providing upward feedback feels impossible because of the top-heavy hierarchy and fear-based environment. Middle managers act like enforcers for the executives. The Product is slapped together and experiences significant failures constantly. The most important (but unspoken) company value is 'fake it until you make it.' Leaders often try ill-advised things because they want to be 'innovative' or 'scrappy,' but end up making it more difficult to get work done, then freak out and force everyone to scramble to fix things under immense pressure. EliseAI feels eerily similar to the Hulu series, 'The Dropout.' Leaders want to be trailblazers so badly, but they won't pause to learn or implement the basics. This is evident in both the product and in how the company is run.