Talented crews led by cheap and ignorant management - Anonymous employee Uptake Employee Review

Incompetent management: many high level management have no clue what motivates employee and how to make good products. It is quiet obvious from recent events that existing customers are not happy with what Uptake is doing. low-ball payment to experienced employee. No bonus, ridiculous stock options for a startup. They claim to offer market average but do not take into consideration of experience. Senior (and great) employees with 4 ~ 10+ years more experience may receive about 10k ~ 30k more than fresh graduations with similar education. Evaluation: for some department there is no clear career vertical advancement. Self-evaluation may be modified to worse without notice after 1-1 meet between manager and subordinate. backstabbing: manager who has no experience or clue would put himself to more projects and replace capable employees, with no notice. lack of professionalism: manager leak performance information to peers. Aggressive and unnecessary interference of projects to suit the need of management.