Pros
My coworkers are overall fantastic. The offices are dog friendly. Summer fridays are nice (every other Friday off during the summer). Up until covid hit, Embark had great culture. Since the second half of 2020, the company expanded like crazy. Everything seemed to be going great until 2022...
Cons
(1) Depends on who you are and what your job is, pay can be quite lacking. (2) There is a DEIB committee, and the website says Embark cares about DEIB, but one of the C-level executives has intimidated people in the DEIB committee, to the point that they were not allowed to attend the meetings anymore. However, they still has power to block anything the C-level executives doesn't want to be enacted, such as salary transparency. Several members of the DEIB committe are disheartened and think it's pointless to attempt to improve DEIB at Embark. (3) During the first layoff of this year, Embark laid off 20% of its employees. That was 40 people. Minorities and women were greatly overrepresented in the lay offs. Embark was never a diverse company to start with, and now it is even less diverse. Also, during all hands meetings following the mass layoffs, C-level executives avoided answering questions related to minorities and women being overrepresented in the lay offs. (4) More about the layoffs. The C-level executives were never truthful to us about how dire the situation was. Most of us had no ideas the layoffs were coming. Most direct supervisors had no idea that their direct reports were being laid off. The C-level executives were the ones who decided who to lay off, but how do they know what each employee was doing, and how skilled they are, without consulting their direct supervisors? Also, compared to many other companies that had widespread layoffs, the severance package from Embark is laughable. (5) Priorities constantly change. It's tough to actually be able to see a project to the end. (6) Apparently everyone but the C-level executives could see that post covid bubble was going to burst. However, they kept on hiring, as if everything is going well. Even on the day the lay offs occured, there was at least one person starting their first day at Embark. Why hire new employees if you are just going to lay off your existing employees? (7) The company is now a barebones version that it once was. Pretty much everyone at still at Embark is looking for a new position. No sense in staying somewhere where as layoffs happen, additional responsibilities are piled on without any additional compensation.