Consulting business model; untrustworthy founder - Software Engineer Usage AI Employee Review

1.0
5 Nov 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Office in the NYC - Big scope

Cons

- Founder would agree to postpone the Sunday 9 am to 10 am, forget, and fire you by email at 10:15 - Consulting business model; each client required a lot of manual work

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Usage AI Response
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Hello! Thank you for reviewing Usage AI. We're sorry to hear that you had a negative experience--we have no record of firing anyone on a Sunday and are unsure why someone would claim this. As for the comment about having a consulting business model, this is also untrue. If we were a consulting firm it would be impossible to have 100s of clients at the same time with the size of our current team. Lastly, we treat our employees very well as they are at the forefront of what we do. We have very happy employees and our HR team would be happy to discuss any more suggestions for improvement. Please email cecy@usage.ai for further discussion, and know that we will be addressing this review with the team so they can learn from it and do better in the future.

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Cons

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Cons

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