The CTO is a psychopath - Anonymous employee SCiFi Foods Employee Review

1.0
4 Jun 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I was really drawn to the mission, to fight climate change by culturing meat instead of using animals for meat. The work was interesting

Cons

This company is completely mismanaged. The CTO Kasia Gora has no idea what she's doing, she doesn't understand the science, and shes totally toxic. She drives talented people out of the company. Shes a bully and humiliates people. I started working for Artemys with such high hopes about the future but the company culture is SO bad. The CEO Josh doesn't seem like he wants to fix anything and doesn't understand that kasia doesn't understand the science. AND Josh and Kasia ripped us off on our salaries and equity. They only care about themselves... I wouldn't advise anyone to work here.

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SCiFi Foods Response
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We appreciate your regard for our mission; we too are excited about the huge impact we can have on climate change by revolutionizing how meat is made, and the interesting and challenging work to do in order to achieve it. How we make that happen is just as important to us. At Artemys Foods, culture is a major part of how we are successful, and it’s something we spend a lot of time working on. We’re committed to having high internal visibility (e.g. sharing board packs with everyone in the company), high autonomy (e.g. everyone involved in developing their own OKRs), and a culture of open feedback at all levels. Although we are saddened to hear you feel you had a negative experience, we stand behind our work to create a culture of context, autonomy and open feedback across all levels of our organization. In addition, we have always been committed to industry-wide benchmarking, reviewed twice a year, to ensure that our equity and compensation packages are above-average for similar size companies in the Bay Area. This benchmarking is also done in alignment with our career ladder, which is shared company-wide.

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5.0
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Cons

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Cons

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