Playroll 10 Star Company - Senior Product Manager Playroll Employee Review

Playroll hosts a lot of socials and will buy staff coffee and lunch.

Critically toxic work culture and broken systems. There is no structure. Everything breaks, all the time. Daily backstabbing and infighting. Critically short-staffed. Everyday is spent putting out fires, it's impossible to do your job. The founders repeatedly claim that there are "no golden calves" and that they "want people that will speak up and challenge the status quo" but the people who do, are the ones that get fired! Zero work-life balance. It's a culture of burnout. they treat their staff like matchsticks. Burn them out and then discard them via MSA. Company preaches transparency, but there is none. Questionable morals and ethics from founders. Hire and fire mentality. It's clear that the founders do not understand the landscape in which they operate. Rapid staff turnover! The founders think they are untouchable and they conduct themself like thugs. They rule with fear, everyone is constantly scared of losing their jobs. Do not believe the 4 - 5 star reviews of the company. HR is padding up the numbers and have forced current staff to leave positive reviews, as they are struggling to find people to work there. If you are thinking of working there, then I'd encourage you to reach out to previous employees and hear what their experience was.

Playroll is truly a once in a lifetime company to work for. The combination of people, product, background, and market timing have all come together to create something spectacular. It's rare (if not impossible) to find an independent bootstrapped business with true product market fit, but that also has the DNA and infrastructure of a global powerhouse behind it. Playroll is a true idea meritocracy where everyone can contribute to progressing the business forward--regardless of level. The Co-founders are an effective team combining deep leadership experience, wisdom, and passion with a once in a generation mind and executional talent. If you work hard and seize on opportunities in front of you, the business rewards and supports you. I have seen numerous examples of this across our coworkers and it's a good feeling to go to work each day knowing you are on a winning team. They say the mark of a good culture is when your people aren't dreading going to work on a Monday -- I'd say Playroll brings out the opposite feeling where you often spend a weekend looking forward to getting back in the trenches. Company values aren't just words on a page, but something engrained in the DNA and which deliver on their promise across the organization.

Standard laptop issuance is not a Mac. On a serious note the main con isn't about Playroll but about the market we operate in. There simply aren't enough hours in the day to seize on this market opportunity in an increasingly fast moving industry - that means it's sometimes challenging to prioritize and focus.