Writer Reviews

The culture on the post-sales side is incredibly toxic, starting from the C-suite on down. Multiple Gong call recordings have reportedly been deleted because the CEO, May, and CCO, Mina, were recorded berating team members for "incompetence." The product is consistently falling behind competitors in both quality and value. While competitive pressure is inherent in the GenAI space, our product lacks meaningful differentiation — it tests worse than alternatives and is more expensive than the competitors you'll regularly encounter in deals. We're expected to move at "Writer speed" but given little support to do so. Compounding this, customers are spread across multiple disparate pricing models, meaning every interaction requires significant context switching just to understand what a given customer even has access to. Expect to be micromanaged. The CEO regularly drops into Slack channels to second-guess decisions without any account context. We've also been reduced to reporting on vanity metrics like meetings held and emails sent, as if volume is a substitute for actual productivity. Unless you're in a desperate situation, I'd look elsewhere — and even then, I'd think twice.

Great leaders lead from the front, lift you up. At Writer they lead from behind and push you down, lift themselves up (leading from the rear) and throwing you under the bus! Be prepared for a culture of toxicity, no work life balance, being on fire all the time, and an environment of finger pointing all in the name of "Writer Speed". Things to watch out for and to steer clear of is in Cloud Engineering. It is a disaster waiting to happen. Makes you think where do they find these people and how do they vet them as it has been a revolving door here with no end in site.