HqO Reviews

Everything under the sun is problematic. I wish Glassdoor allowed zero-star reviews. The management is terrible, toxic, and completely incompetent. They hire for positions they think they need, only to fire those people a few months later without any remorse when they realize the role was unnecessary. Top performers are fired because an executive personally dislikes them, while promotions are given annually to those favored by management. It’s a popularity contest, a frat-like boys' club. If you’re not in the inner circle, your job isn’t secure. As for the product itself? It’s awful. No one uses it, not even the executives, which is likely why sales have been minimal for years. Most of their "deals" in that time have been informal agreements between the co-founders and their personal contacts. Their strategy? It's probably changed three times this week. Here’s their process: 1. Develop a strategy requiring a complete company realignment and overhaul. 2. Try the strategy for a brief moment. 3. Abandon it and come up with something new. 4. Fire people due to the lack of immediate results. 5. Do anything but take responsibility. I could continue, but I hope anyone reading this gets the point. If you’re not in the C-suite (and sometimes even if you are) or a close friend of those who are, your job is at risk. Performance doesn’t matter. So, avoid working for this failing company.

Everything else, and I'm not even exaggerating. Leadership in general is a disaster; not only is it a huge boy's club, but they know exactly how to bait and switch their employees. They will promise you compensation and care, only to turn around on your last day at the company and claim they "didn't know you cared about compensation" (yes, this really happened). They will drown you in work that isn't even part of your job description, so that by the time you're a few months in, you're doing 5+ roles in one with no support (and again, no pay). I had, no joke, two of my managers fired on me in under two years. For no reason other than petty biases and politics in the workplace. These biases, mind you, are "protected" by the very LET'S GO values HqO has -- which are only used subjectively to protect or fire people from the company. Not one leader there actually embodies those values. In fact, leadership is a liability waiting to happen; in several all-hands company meetings, they have glorified the likes of Elon Musk, war-torn cities (yes, this is also real), and more "role models" who are extremely problematic. To make it even more questionable, leadership genuinely believes in these things. On the product side, there is no product-market fit. The company is failing financially because real estate customers don't want to purchase an overpriced app that is underdeveloped (HqO also fired or lost most of its engineering team, but it's not like they invested in the UX/UI of the product beforehand anyway). Overall, it's a company run by toxic leadership trying to sell an unviable product. I sincerely hope that anyone wishing to apply here reads these reviews and takes them seriously. There is good reason why all of the reviews from the past year are jarringly negative.