Heartless Senior Leadership - Director Shield AI Employee Review

1.0
19 Jan 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people to work with. The teams are fantastic. The tech is great. The technical vision is fantastic.

Cons

Senior leadership hasn't figured out how to deal with people yet. They do underhanded things to reduce the employee benefits (like 401k match reduction) at the same time as asking for 50-55 hour weeks from the teams. They told us that if we work less than 45 hours we will be fired. Now they will be lucky if enough people stay to deliver.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
25 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

A majority of the company is filled with good-willed, nice, curious people across AI, aviation, geospatial, engineering and instructional spaces.

Cons

Too many of the operational decisions are made by sof guys with virtually zero experience in any of the fields relevant to the company...including strategic operations or even tactical isr. Too many has-beens used to working with no oversight. Money and equipment constantly disappearing. The company is like a toddler walking around in their parents clothes. Poor scaling. Almost non-existent safety considerations. Prior service in corporate is always something that needs to be addressed but the amount of sof guys this company employees just so they can put "elite" in every tagline is ridiculous. They complain constantly just to freeze or meltdown in the lightest stressful situations. Virtually unteachable so they are removed and elevated into positions that avoid that dynamic. We can't get people to stop being vindictive bigots every time they are corrected or called out for lying in a meeting to save our lives but we sure will platform the latest self-help garbage from some other hack of a seal because so-in-so met him once or likes his podcast.

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