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Mixed Experience with Room for Improvement - Anyonymous Employee Convex Employee Review

1.0
Feb 19, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I've been with the company during a period of significant growth, surrounded by friendly and intelligent colleagues.

Cons

The work environment is not healthy at this company. Period. This stems from a noticeable stressed CEO, that leads to micromanagement that hampers autonomy. Unfortunately, this stress isn't exclusive to the CEO. It trickles down to other leadership members, impacting employees ability to deliver their best work. There is a noticeable absence of recognition for hard work, creating continuous pressure to perform without positive reinforcement. It's common for leaders to gaslight employees. While the desire for improvement is prevalent among my peers, these challenges make it challenging to maintain a consistently positive attitude in the workplace. Don't let the positive reviews fool you. They are probably written by the CEO to mitigate the flood of negative sentiment.

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5.0
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Pros

Good leadership and nice people to work with

Cons

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1.0
Feb 10, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Other engineers are friendly and smart. Overworked, and forced to push subpar code by leadership, the PMs are also trying their best to keep up with the completely random fickle demands of leadership.

Cons

1. I think the founders are awful. No one likes the CEO. The CPO just thinks he can lead engineering as well. The avg. pay is not worth the trauma of working here. 2. Too many VPs and closed-door discussions happen for such a small company. It takes them weeks to make a decision on something and expect engineers to turn it around faster. 3. The CS team just directly interacts with engineering for customer help and think this is okay practice. The PMs have not been able to protect the engineering org from spending more time on slack than pushing code 4. There are never any product requirements. I think this isn't on the PMs themselves but we never know exactly what to do in a sprint 5. The new Eng boss seems to have given up. He had great ideas but the ex-consultant CPO runs the engineering team too and I think our SVP knows when things are wrong but can't do anything due to the idiocity of the arrangement

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Convex Response
2y
This is a tough review to read. You're clearly very frustrated and this isn't what you joined for. Some feedback here is well taken. There should always be product requirements for engineers. And while serving customers (including answering questions from CS) is a part of running any business, doing so in a way where engineers can’t find focus time is not okay. Elsewhere, it sounds like we are providing you with insufficient context of why decisions are being made, and it's tough to hear is perceived as bad intentions. We're sorry your experience here isn't what you were looking for and hope things have improved.
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