Holistic AI Reviews

When I initially joined Holistic, I didn't read any reviews about the company, but after I was fired, quite recently, I started reading all the reviews on Glassdoor and I realised that there is a pattern. Apart from a solitary individual, senior leadership remains disconnected from regular employees, although given that this is a startup, one would expect senior people to work alongside regular employees but that's not the case at Holistic AI. I understand your skepticism, but you read it correctly and it raises the same concern that I had - if senior leaders are absent from the daily interactions it suggests a lack of genuine concern for their workforce, making terminations all the more straightforward. It's an exceedingly unusual culture for a startup, I know! Furthermore, be cautious about believing any promises they make. They may express intentions of collaborating to create an exceptional product and company. Yet, in the end, if your performance doesn't align with their undisclosed criteria, you'll find yourself terminated, with no explanation of what 'good enough' even means. I want to conclude by saying that you should not have any hopes of Holistic AI showing concern for your career goals, as they will promptly shut down any attempts to initiate such discussions.

I was promised many things, almost none of them got materialized. You will start working as what they call data scientist but in reality you will end up working on Excel spreadsheets or whatever they consider essential for the company, typically involving uninspiring ideas. Reluctantly, I share this review, prompted by witnessing a colleague forced to leave the company. The criteria for passing probation are ambiguous, seemingly dependent on whether they like you or not rather than defined standards. I'd suggest to temper your enthusiasm about completing the probationary period, as even after a successful probation, the prospect of termination persists, exemplified by my teammate dismissed without a clear reason, except that they were no longer favored, causing them stress and ultimately leading to their departure—a situation that suggests my colleague was compelled to leave. I started asking myself, how was that possible for someone like them, that already passed probation and I later discovered, through one of my friends, that the motivation behind their actions is the protection afforded by UK legislation, which facilitates an easier termination of employment within the initial 2 years of service.