Unprofessional Management, Terrible Lack of Diversity - Anonymous employee PathFactory Employee Review

1.0
26 Aug 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting product - at least before new CEO and COO joined the company. Hard to say what direction the platform will continue to take.

Cons

Management has a very difficult time being honest - the organization has been letting employees go left, right and center all year. They will often say, please do not be concerned as this is the last wave of restructuring and let the very same people go the following week. Lets not blatantly lie to employees about the state of affairs at PathFactory. Terrible lack of diversity in management, and I've noticed that employees "randomly" terminated without due cause are often POC despite outperforming others on the team. Really awful company culture and attitude. I believe the organization used to be a great place to work but it's now just a bunch of disgruntled employees who are upset, lack direction from management, and unsure of their future at PF. Employees were asked to voluntarily give blood to help our former CEO. I hope he appreciates the amount of time and effort his employees put into this endeavor in his time of need, many of whom he terminated shortly thereafter. I think that is pretty unethical.

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PathFactory Response
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Thank you for your feedback. I understand there have been a lot of changes within the organization with our new CEO and COO and those changes are not always easy to adjust to. We have had a downsizing this year and that was an extremely tough decision our leadership team made in hopes to find success moving forward. As far as our terminated employees, we do not share the details behind the reasons with everyone in the organization as we would like to maintain confidentiality with the individuals it directly impacts. PathFactory is committed to having a diverse workforce as we believe it allows us to have diversity of thought and can lead to an improved culture and overall success. I am sorry if your experience with us did not reflect that. With our former CEO going through a very difficult health issue, we decided to promote a blood drive. In no way did we ask people to donate blood who didn’t want to and I am sorry if you felt that it was disingenuous in any way. We know there is a blood shortage in Canada and wanted to recognize the individuals who wanted to help out. I know this was a very comforting thought to our former CEO when he went through his surgeries knowing that we were all rooting for him. We will make sure to voice your concerns with our management team in hopes we can do better and create a better environment to work in. Additionally, please feel free to reach out to Employee Experience if you would like to discuss this in further detail, we are always open to feedback.

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