Spring reviews about "coworker"

- Expectations are high, so it's not for everyone

Company seems to only be focused on top line. Everyone knows there are serious problems with the underlying product but nobody says it out loud. We've lost several key engineers in a very short period of time. The rebrand looks good but it's the same old Teespring underneath. We were told a serious effort was going to be made to improve the platform but nothing has happened on that front.

I can't think of any!

Zero extra compensation for working holidays (UNHEARD OF), lack of professionalism on the part of certain staff including office manager's and human resource representatives off-site (lack of support)

It is a 5 day work week

At the time there was bad communication between board members and executives but I heard that is being sorted out and attributed to growing pains. It seemed like everyone wore rose colored glasses...there was a cult-like feeling sometimes the way the troops were rallied at All Hands meetings (I think this is a normal Silicon Valley strategy though). It wasn't uncommon to work 50 - 60hrs per week 'for the greater good'. It was inherently sexist there, there were fewer men workers but they were in management positions and made a ridiculously high salary comparative to all of the female 'worker bees'.

I have been working here for over three years now. In these three years, I have had 11 different managers with 7 of them being in 2016 alone. At one point, the team reported directly to the CEO because we didn't have a manager. Now we have a team leader and the management structure is still not clear. Even if we have a manager it is not someone who is even educated in our team's specialty because we work in "pods". A pod seems to be an excuse to not have managers or to keep people with a "team leader" title so they do not have to be paid a manager's salary. There is a lot of fishiness from some of the higher-ups (not the CEO) in the company. They think we don't know what's going on, but they are actually very transparent and you can easily see through the fake smiles. The employees were lied to multiple times as we all thought the company was doing great when in fact it wasn't. We got holiday bonuses once years ago and have never received a bonus since. Unless you count getting a holiday sweater a "bonus". Even after two massive lay-offs, people continue to either be laid off, "mutually leave", or just leave. Nothing is able to get done because management and teams are changing all of the time. If you run into an issue, you will be ignored and wait over a year for it to finally be acknowledged and taken care of. Even now, there are huge glitches on the website which are being ignored because it's "too time consuming." Unrealistic expectations run rampant. What is considered to be a major project typically flops because the expectations were way beyond what was actually realistic. Some jobs were moved out of the country and the quality of that work has dropped dramatically. There is no oversight on these workers so they are able to get away with doing poor work. Even after reporting to a manager, it didn't matter because that manager would then leave and there's no one to report it to anymore.

- Sometimes work creeps into personal time. There are moments where you'll need to burn the midnight oil to get things done by certain deadlines—as long as you can find a balance it's fine.