Very Flexible and Very Active - QA UX Tester The Glimpse Group Employee Review

Passionate group of people, developing best in class immersive technologies with top tier customers. Honest and transparent management.

Facing the challenges associated with an early stage tech industry.

I cannot think of many. Even the things this company thinks are "pros" are actually indeed a joke. They offered stock options, as a counter to below-average pay, at $5 or so a share that's currently trading at less than 50-cents a share. What an amazing offer. Unlimited PTO within reason was nice. That may be all there is.

Where do I start? These guys are an absolute joke. They seem to have had some sort of grand scheme to offer an exceptionally-overvalued IPO for a company that produced no actual publicly-desired product, to generate cash used to buy up smaller companies in a Ponzi-adjacent scheme to siphon the profits of those smaller companies so that they could trick investors into believing that they were turning a profit, meanwhile wasting their time focusing almost entirely on Meta, a platform that generated no revenue, and one that the public outright refused to adopt. Meta failed so poorly that even Facebook finally called it a failure and cut their losses. Meanwhile, Despite the decline of Metal, The Glimpse Group management continued their delusion belief that Meta would take off, devoting significant time toward development of Meta assets, while the subsidiaries that were making actual money were forced to subsidize The Glimpse Group's complete underestimation of the current market, watching their profits become wasted on a failed social media platform or other non-profitable ventures. Any profits from the subsidiary companies were funneled back to The Glimpse Group to fool investors into thinking The Glimpse Group was actually profitable and their money wasn't being wasted. It was. In a stunning example of absolute failure of management, The Glimpse Group went from boasting to their over 400 employees across multiple subsidiaries in multiple countries to fewer than 40 employees in under 5 years. Despite a few suspected pump-and-dump attempts, the stock has lost nearly all of its value and is now delisted from the Nasdaq. An SEC investigation would be welcomed. Outdated and Substandard Equipment. The industry standard of IT equipment replacement is 3 to 5 years. They removed the IT budget completely, and employees relied on servers and workstations that were up to 10 years old in some cases--far beyond industry standards, and far beyond acceptable usability. They do not keep up with modern technology, and do not support modern operating systems. Oudated software was in use, unsupported, and the servers and firewall went without updates or patches. Their backup and data retention is unacceptably below industry standards. They ended off-site backups to save money, and instead relied on a simple external hard drive for server backups, which was located in the same location as the server. Data loss due to theft, fire, flood, or other natural disaster? It's practically a guarantee. IT Security is a complete joke. Our subsidiary spent a great effort to achieve and maintain SOC2 Compliance. The Glimpse Group refused to pay for the continued support of such compliance, causing most of that to be discontinued, creating numerous vulnerabilities, meanwhile guaranteeing clients of their continued compliance. When the subject of ransomware attacks was discussed, "we'll just pay the ransom" was quite literally the decision The Glimpse Group made to avoid paying for continued security protections. They boast of their publicly-traded company bringing in millions in revenue, yet rely almost entirely on free platforms that offer only the most basic services. They also practiced using shared passwords. An audit of their IT infrastructure would be welcomed, especially considering the government contracts they're actively servicing. Absolute incompetence in Management. The decision was made to downsize the current office due to under-utilization, a decision that actually made some sense. The Glimpse Group, however, delayed signing the new office lease as long as possible for reasons unknown. Unfortunately, however, they did not delay the termination of services at the current office. The day scheduled to move coincided with the day of termination of utilities, meaning there was no electricity to the office. They refused to have it restored, even temporarily, due to not wanting to pay the charge for restoring the service. It's customary to hire a moving company to assist with the moving of an office to a new location. Especially when the office is 30k sq/ft full of desks, workstations, and all other furniture associated with a working office. They chose to not do this. Instead, the local employees, of which there were 5, became tasked with the effort of packing up a full office and moving all equipment themselves in complete darkness, aided only by personally-owned flashlights. The Glimpse Group's response to this? "Oh well." No apologies. No acknowledgement of their failure. They absolutely did not care. Family Comes Last. When the Dobbs decision was released, the Glimpse Group sent out a company-wide email explaining that they would cover in-full, no-questions-asked, any reasonable cost incurred by any employee seeking to terminate a pregnancy who lived in a state that began restricting such treatment. But raises, bonuses, or otherwise increased compensation? Absolutely not. While living through one of the greatest inflationary periods in recent history, they refused to give out even a basic Cost-of-Living-Adjustment, but were all to happy to spare no expense to help you end the life of an unborn child. Feed your family? Nope. End your future family? They're all-in. Salary Cuts and Promised Back-Pay Everyone is well-aware of the economic challenges following the Covid-19 pandemic. In facing those challenges, The Glimpse Group cut salaries by 10% for employees, and 20% for *some* upper management in an effort to prevent layoffs. They of course did not cut their own salaries. The cuts came with the promise that salaries would be restored, and back-pay for would be given upon a successful quarter. Over 3/4 of the staff were laid off anyway, and the pay was never restored, even after achieving a profitable quarter. And back-pay? Employees can just forget about that, because it never happened. When they decided to shut our subsidiary down, they gave us a two-week notice. They gave no severance, despite most people having been working there for many years. They absolutely do not care about their employees.