Whatnot Reviews

Assignments and mentorship followed clear racial lines: people of color were handed the least visible jobs, the riskiest deadlines, the tasks that would get them blamed if things went wrong. White colleagues got the new features and the face-of-the-company work. Reviews were a joke. Folks of color who produced clear results were skipped over for promotions while less effective coworkers who matched the preferred image moved up. I was told outright to ignore resumes with ethnic names and only hire for “culture fit,” which everyone knew meant shutting out diversity. Meetings tolerated racist jokes and assumptions about ability. Promotions flowed through private networks that shut everyone else out. I left because I couldn’t stay where bias was policy and cruelty was routine.

Biggest con is the pay, both my wife and I work full time and have no kids but we are barely getting by. I brought pay up to leadership and was told to be grateful I have a job. That was when my eyes really started to open on what was going on here. There is no opportunity for advancement here none of us agents have gotten promoted the entire time I have been here. There are no plans to promote either. Clear favoritism I have personally witnessed someone that is extremely toxic taking credit for other people's work, constantly bashing on people and causing non stop drama, instead of that person getting reprimanded or anything they were given a brand new position with more pay and more power. I can not tell you how hard it has become to do my job properly. We try to keep the platform safe but the executives rather a false GMV instead of the user experience. When I first started the CEO would boost that we are for users and the buyer experience. That mindset has gone out the window, we are GMV over anything and everything.