Firstly there are no benefits. Having no benefits could work for some people but it doesn't work for most. The shady stock option that's paraded as a benefit doesn't kick in until after 4 years of employment, which is... weird. The company isn't even 4 years old and they offer a benefit that employees can't even use until they have been with the company for 4 years. Their oldest employees who have been there the longest don't get to take advantage of the stock option. That says a lot all on its own. Most, if not all, of the positive reviews giving this company 5 stars on Glassdoor are fake. This company is devoid of integrity to the point where they will pressure their employees (specifically HR recruiters) to leave positive reviews to bump up the rating on Glassdoor. And you can tell because most of them say the same thing. But the lack of integrity doesn't stop there; it permeates throughout the entirety of the company and this toxic dearth of apathy is ever so present in the executive and management teams. The toxic office political game that they run is the following: 1. Management is given KPI's and goals by the executives. Usually these KPI's and goals are either nearly impossible to obtain or they aren't edited and refined to be realistic. Typically these goals are dreamt up at the whips and whims of the CEO - who has surrounded himself with a bunch of "yes-men" that are afraid to let him know when something is unrealistic. 2. These goals get converted into KPI's by the management team to advise their front-line workers. 3. The management team then passes on the entirety of the unfiltered, unrefined, confusing directions from the executives onto their team-members. These managers either don't know or don't care to set up their team for success because a lot of the times, the goals are unrealistic. 4. Essentially the CEO figures out that he's not meeting targets in certain areas, he questions the executive and management team, and they ALL pass the blame downwards instead of analyzing or adjusting goals to reflect realistic expectations and to achieve high quality work. If these managers and executives don't pass the blame downwards, they are either given HR written warnings or fired themselves. So they really have no option but to play the game and blame their own employees and team members. The real kicker is that sometimes the CEO himself will take pride firing a high level manager; and I have seen it myself where he has openly mocked their departure on the company Slack channel. Not only is this unprofessional but it also crosses a lot of HR boundaries in one fell-swoop. These guys take pride in firing people or watching them quit. And then they pump themselves up by saying that it's a tough place to work to mask the truth that they struggle with keeping new employees. And the management/executive team isn't much better either. I have had private conversations where my supervisor will badmouth a colleague. Again, totally unprofessional. And in a normal workplace this would set an individual up for a meeting with HR. Furthermore, some executives will get so obsessed with processes that nothing actually gets done. And then the employee receives the blame for nothing being done even though their executive is continuously redirecting them to work on their processes. I should mention that HR is non-existant here. Check out LinkedIn. Most of the HR employees are recruiters. Most of them copy & paste responses to negative Glassdoor reviews like this one (I predict), and leave fake ones to show the higher-ups that their ratings are "improving" on Glassdoor. All you have to do is compare the date of this review and the date of the next 5 star review. And the interview reviews on here are also very telling of what kind of a company this is as well. Listen: if you are in a pinch and need the money or experience to get you to your next workplace after ElectroNeek then do what you need to do. BUT they will be a headache to deal with... and this comes from a person that would have had one of the more decent experiences with ElectroNeek. If you do decide to join this company, here is some advice: - Try to keep the "ball out of your court" when it comes to responsibility for any failings. This will help you to keep your job longer. However it is my opinion that employees are all on borrowed time since it is only a matter of time where you will have to be accountable for any failings. Once you start being accountable (for likely some crazy ambitions), it won't take long for your supervisor/manager/executive to start pinning department failings on you. - Keep searching for your next opportunity while you are with ElectroNeek. Cut your checks but keep your eyes on the next opportunity. Like I mentioned, you are on borrowed time with these guys.. especially if you don't play into their office political game and take responsibility in the workplace like a normal person would. Reminder: this isn't a normal workplace. Consider yourself warned.
