Controlling and Unfair Treatment - Engineer LTK Employee Review

2.0
Jan 14, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* office is nice * coworkers are cool * parties are fun * good snacks and drinks * interesting space

Cons

company can: * search you, your belongings, and your car at anytime per employee handbook * have manager escort you to be drug tested per employee handbook * make you pay 50% for lost/stolen/damaged laptops/equipment (first time), and 100% anytime after per employee handbook you must: * sign a wage deduction form allowing rewardStyle to withhold money from your paycheck for lost/stolen/damaged equipment * inform your manager and hr if you date anyone at rewardStyle, even if they don't report to you or vice-versa per employee handbook * inform hr within 5 days of a DUI conviction per employee handbook other: * breaks limited to 20 minutes, lunch limited to 30 minutes under new employee handbook * engineering leaders hire their friends into management positions, without interviews or opening positions to others * 4 VPs of engineering, 1 director of engineering, 7 engineering managers, 1 VP of Product, 2 Directors of Product, 5 Product Managers, ~35 software engineers * subjected to micro management and a blame culture * engineers in Dallas treated like 2nd tier employees, engineers in other locations allowed to work remotely for example

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LTK Response
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Thank you for your feedback. rewardStyle recently updated their employee handbook to ensure our policies are current and continue to remain compliant with applicable laws (most companies will do this on an annual basis as a best practice). An additional company holiday was added to the handbook in 2019 as well as two PTO days to volunteer at the non-profit of your choice. Our Bereavement Leave was also expanded to include grandparents. Other updates include very standard policies around technology replacement and also reasonable suspicion. These policies should not be unreasonable as for example our devices are covered by apple care and also we trust our employees are not under the influence of drugs while working. Our policy around consensual relationships has also been updated as there have been so many headlines around harassment in the workplace and we would like to ensure our workplace is free from prohibited harassment. Also, we do not monitor time away from the office as all our employees are exempt. These are pretty standard policies and we don't feel anyone is being treated unfairly due to the handbook changes made. If you do feel you are being treated unfairly, however, we strongly encourage you to speak to a member of the People Team. Thank you, again, for taking the time to provide us with very valuable feedback.

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- Used to be a really cool place with innovative, forward-thinking people everywhere. (A lot of the pros are "used" to be"] - There's room to get to know the people you're working with - Good brand recognition - Sometimes people have good ideas you can run with

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Everything about the company now vs. 2-3 years ago is different and in a bad way. Everything is so very disjointed. Decisions are reactive and completely not thought through - they're also being made by tech bros who are simply not the target audience of this brand. They are out of touch and it's ripped the passion and potential right out of the business. Everyone feels like glorified taskhorses. No legit appreciation is given to anyone. All the things that used to make LTK great are no longer and, sadly, that probably means that ShopMy will absolutely run them into the ground. So much potential here which has been disappointing to watch disappear. Senior leadership ahs absolutely no idea what they are doing and they keep throwing things at the wall.

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