How are senior leaders perceived at Skyrocket?

Pros

If you want to work for a company that puts your bonus in your bank account and then takes it out 5-days later, this place is for you! This company is rife with problems and that’s the reason they hire and fire as seen in past reviews. There is a lack of CEO focus, a lot of indecisiveness and zero trust in the team around him. The other owner who is not mentioned in reviews is terrible too, and if you work for him, good luck. Several years of consistent turnover under that guy and shuffling of accounts. Crazy reckless unnecessary decisions were made during covid that practically bankrupted the company and resulted in laying off 3/4 of staff 2 weeks before Christmas. The owners bought a mask company on a whim, smack dab in the middle of covid, with zero experience selling this type of product during a time they should have been fiscally conservative to try and preserve as much staff and dollars. If you care anything about your health, do not work at this company. They do not care about mask wearing or health and safety of employees. They pushed us to come back into the office without proper safety measures setup. If you are reading this review and have decided to go elsewhere, you’ve dodged a bullet. If you are reading this and are unemployed, staying unemployed longer and choosing to go somewhere else is the best bet. The only pro was how smart and great co-workers were, but they let everyone go.

Cons

See above for more details.

Advice to Management

It’s probably best at this point to absolve the company. If you haven’t been able to make it consistently work and grow over 10 years, it’s probably not meant to be.

Pros

The development teams I worked with were top notch

Cons

The leadership, direction and feedback from upper management was abysmal, which lead to a work environment of confusion and fustration

Pros

Nice co-workers, available snacks. Not much else.

Cons

The CEO is very abrasive and is a micro manager. He doesn’t listen to anyone including his own management team. It’s no wonder they are slowly going out of business.

Advice to Management

Unless you’re the CEO, look for another job.

Pros

flexible working hours, half-day Fridays in slower season

Cons

too many cons unfortunately.. I’ve spent a few years at the company and during this time I’ve seen so many people hired and fired quickly after. The company lacks strategy, vision and the CEO is making everything worse. During covid they laid off more than half of the company, but it was not because of the current state of economy in the country, but because of extremely poor business decisions and crazy impulsiveness of the CEO. He doesn’t trust anyone but himself and will never listen to any opinion or idea that is not his own. He doesn’t even trust the other owner, nor any of other founders that have been there with him since the beginning. It’s a very unprofessional, unequal and toxic environment. If you have any other choice, DO NOT come work here. Their future is very questionable anyway. Also, most of the 5 star reviews are fake (everyone at the company knows) and the free snacks that are mentioned here so often, they are not that amazing..

Advice to Management

trust the people you hire, be at least a little bit consistent with your decisions, drop the ego, end the crazy favoritism.. and many many more...

Pros

Flexible Working Hours and Snacks Provided

Cons

So so many cons, CEO is a classic narcissist and a bully, this has to be the most unprofessionally ran company I have ever worked with. The 5 star reviews are all fake as he couldn't stand that the company was below 3 stars on Glass Door so he had people write fake 5 star reviews. Over the past two years they have hired people from good jobs only to either fire them or lay them off months later leaving the without a job. They just laid off 1/2 their work force and honestly it appears their future is questionable.

Advice to Management

Listen to your employees, they have some good ideas and perhaps just try to become a decent person and quit treating people so badly.

Pros

There were some nice, talented co-workers to commiserate with.

Cons

Upper management is constantly second-guessing their decisions, which is understandable considering their mind-boggling choices. You'll pay the price for their ineptitude as they continuously change course and inevitably blow past deadlines. Working 10-14+ hour days was the norm in my department. The environment is toxic and soul-crushing and the pay is low. I could go on and on, but trust me and the other legitimate reviews and avoid working here if you have other options.

Advice to Management

Paying a salary does not mean you can extract limitless uncompensated labor from an employee.