Bad, worse, and worst. - Product Manager Roundforest Employee Review

1.0
Jan 14, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Colleagues are amazing people, super talented and highly capable, they make the time at Roundforest almost tolerable. 2. The company is working in a very fast pace, and dealing in a very interesting and dynamic business environment.

Cons

1. CEO - The founder and CEO of the company is one of the company biggest pain points, demonstrating childish behaviors like not speaking to employees when he is dissatisfied with anything ("the silent treatment"), panicking at time of crisis, lacking any leadership skills, and more bad traits along those lines. On top of that, the CEO believes in inserting high volume of stress into the work environment because he believes thats how you get results - by stressing everyone out. It safe to say that it's not working, as the average life span of an employee in Roundforest is 6 months. 2. Compensation - very poor, the company is making a lot of money but none of it get shared with the employees, which are required to work almost 24/7, during weekends, holidays, nights, or whenever the company profits are slightly less than expected. No bonuses, no happy hours, embarrassing holiday gifts. 3. Attitude toward employees - In general, Management (and the CEO at the spearhead) acts as they don't care at all from their employees. No education, growth, career options, no welfare, nothing. Just work and work and work and get more money to the founders pockets. 4. High stress - As mentioned, high volume of stress without any good reason. On average after 6 months people quit the company because they can't stand it anymore. In general, it is just recommended to stay away from Roundforest.

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Roundforest Response
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Hi, this is Alon, Roundforest’s CEO. Thank you for your feedback. 2017 was indeed a stressful period. It was challenging to deal with our hyper-growth both in sales and personnel. The team and I were less experienced and I understand where you’re coming from. Today we’re in a completely different mindset. We make sure all employees have a healthy work/life balance, and professional growth is just as important to me as it is to our amazing employees. I really appreciate your feedback. It will help us continue to improve Roundforest. Thank you once again, Alon

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