Used to be great, now it's terrible - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij Abstract

1,0
10 jun 2020
Anonieme werknemer
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Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

- Good base salary (no bonuses, no 401k match) - Pays 100% of health care (vision, dental, medical) - Flexibility & unlimited time off - Lots of smart people willing to mentors - Great product to work on - Lots of interesting challenges and lots of things to learn, there is no time to get bored (in a good way), as long as you get something to work on. - Tech debts are being taken care of, sometimes slowly, but people care about it.

Minpunten

- A high number of employees are feeling depressed and are thinking about leaving. We raised this issue to the Exec team, who said: "You don't have to be like that, just focus on being happy and you'll be happy". - We have highly skilled and sometimes even critical team members leaving on a weekly basis. I don't recall having a single week without someone leaving since February. The execs think this is a non-issue. - A lot of people feel like the company will either be out of business by EOY or that we'll have another major layoff in 3 to 6 months. - No visions from the execs, nobody really knows what to work on (it's been like this since February), and it seems that it will continue this way until September / EOY. - D&I is not a thing anymore and according to the execs, D&I is a luxury for companies that can afford it. - Since the pre-COVID layoff all the management and execs left. This led to several bad actors playing politics and lying their way to the top, trying to get promotions and raises by messing up with the company's culture, and stabbing their coworkers in the back. - Since February, we haven't had a single week without bad news. The exec team tells us not to worry, and then double down on the bad news. - This is yet another company where people don't get what they deserved and opportunities are not given based on skills and track records but on who you're friend with, and how hard you are willing to fight. Many skilled people got promotions by being forced to say "either I get one or I leave". - I've seen amazing and talented people leaving because they were harassed or oppressed by other people, and the bad actors NEVER get in any trouble with HR or the management, even when MANY people report them.

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5y
Thanks for sharing your experience. We know that Abstract has undergone a lot of change in a short period of time. In April 2020, we introduced a new CEO and many new executives. In short order, we updated our company values, product roadmap, strategic plan, and completed a job architecture exercise to ensure equity across the organization and aligning our roles and compensation philosophy with a comparable set of companies similar in stages of growth and size . We are revamping all hiring, onboarding, and assessment tools and methodologies to ensure equitable hiring and promotion processes. We’ve also established an internal, employee-led inclusion counsel to address what our employees believe to be important and urgent issues we want to tackle together. As a fast-growing startup, we’ve learned a lot about what worked and didn’t work in 2019 and we’re actively taking action to chart a new course.

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