I dont think this company has a future. The only vision they have going forward is to turn themselves into a ChatGPT wrapper and they're struggling to even accomplish that.
I was offered a very specific role that covered a niche I was very interested
in working in. In order for that to be tenable though, there had to be a team of other people with different responsibilities so we could cover everything we'd need to be successful.
Well, two weeks into my tenure, the company did a layoff of about 30 people, including the person on my team who was supposed to be my counterpart. This left their responsibilities on me, which completely changed the nature of the role. By asking questions of my manager, it became very clear they knew when they hired me this was going to happen. So, it felt very much like a bait and switch.
To add to that, the micromanagement is real. My immediate supervisor criticized absolutely everything I did, constantly interrupted me when I was trying to explain my reasoning, and regularly spoke down to me like I didn't know what I was doing, despite being hired as a senior.
To add to that, I have never experienced such a bizarre culture like at BioRender. NO ONE is engaged, status meetings with 12+ people are nearly silent expect for 1 or 2 people, Slack channels are completely silent. People were generally helpful when I'd talk to them, but no one was reaching out to me.
Onboarding is two weeks of powerpoint to death from every single team in the company.
They offer you equity as part of your compensation, but there is no plan to exit.
They also boast about not needing VC money, giving them "freedom" to do things as they see, but then they run the company EXACTLY like every over VC startup.
