Disorganised, disrespectful and lacking any leadership or vision - Anonymous employee Protocol Labs Employee Review

1.0
13 Feb 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

remote from anywhere i suppose. Some cool tech (not worth the people though)

Cons

Protocol Labs gets by on the massive amounts of money they raised at an ICO. While they have had some great ideas and built some really cool things, it's clear that they do not listen to any idea outside of their own leadership bubble and are becoming a complete echo chamber of themselves - stifling any and all potential innovation just like big corp. Unlike big corp though, they also have a massive scale-up dilemma, complete lack of vision, and no idea how to manage a company or people. Because they have become a Godless cult at the top, they cannot see that they are the problem and that they need to actually grow up, reign in their own ego's and hire and ENABLE people to have control to help them scale up. This will be their downfall. If this was a startup with low money it would be defunct already other than a few folks still doing some cool things on ipfs (which has no real revenue avenue). They also are completely inequitable to women and minorities, have no idea how to manage (other than punitively and without any inclusivity), have no thought to career growth and will bully anyone that doesn't agree with them. They will also work you to breaking and then blame you for burning out.

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