GRIN Reviews

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Lots of changes this year, but they were necessary to set us up for longer-term success.

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I didn't plan on writing a review of my dismissal, but in response to a review that claimed, "it's not a layoff, it's a totally unrelated restructure," it's actually laughable, so here I am writing. At this point, layoffs at Grin are so common that no one will take you back. Management will throw you out if they think it will make them look good. Interpersonal connections will start to deteriorate as everyone defends their own corner. Hostile behavior between departments is common, and the offending people aren't let go or reprimanded in any significant way. They are deemed too important, so they are allowed to do as they please. If you aren't on their team, you will face abuse, and it won't even be subtle or passive-aggressive. As for my previous statement, the leadership is delusional. They put a spin on everything, and I'm not sure why. They try to preach radical candor but lie to their own employees and spin bad situations. They also continually change how the company operates, assuming new processes will save its reputation. They even attempted to gaslight customers into thinking the removal of a highly desired feature was a GOOD THING FOR THEM. Salaries are far below standard in most departments. The preached culture and values are a complete joke. Some people are capable of blatantly disregarding them and remain unaffected because they are considered "too important." There is no leadership diversity at all; it's essentially a white boys' club, all from the same demographic.

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Poor future planning which led to knee-jerk reactions and impulsive decision-making to anything happening in the market, which caused chaos internally for anyone that wasn't handing down orders. Leadership outside of founders is a revolving door of people coming in and trying to save the day but haven't found success. NO consistent, structured feedback loop that allowed leadership to receive thoughts from lower employees on state of the department/company/industry. If you're an individual contributor coming into this company, just know that company wide changes can be implemented swiftly without cause or explanation. Your entire scope of work or responsibilities can be altered, changed, all because someone in leadership had an amazing (but probably not) idea with no further thought behind it, and just decided to roll it out and make it official. Leaving you to deal with those changes and try to see their idea through with no support.

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The CRO is the worst thing to happen to grin. Condescending passive aggressive comments in slack channels and zoom meetings are common from the CRO. Multiple rounds of layoffs in 11 months have bred an environment of constant uncertainty and no job security. You will be fired if you speak up and laidoff if you manage to stay employed.like other reviews have said diversity is non existent. No women in leadership. All the higher ups and VP level staff have quit in recent months which adds to the constant feeling of uncertainty and dread waiting to see if you have a job tomorrow or not.pay across the board is far below industry standard and you will be laughed at if you dare to ask for a raise.

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constant change new CTO every 6 months

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It's probably enough to just say this: 3 layoffs over a 1 year period. It's true, with the latest having just occurred a few days ago. C-suite and CFO in particular are incompetent. To see a financial model created by the CFO be so inadequate is embarassing. He really ran one over on the CEO and President as a staff analyst could have made a better model. Not to mention the CFO signs off on and creates terrible forecasts, which GRIN is obviously missing and resulting in round after round of layoffs. C-suite takes no accountability for their poor performance and simply blames Macro. Macro has been here for a while now-- how haven't you adjusted to the current climate? Leadership doesn't know enough about their business to make it successful and their employees end up paying for it via layoffs. This company will be sold off or fail in a matter of years most likely. Highly advise to stay away.

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Leadership steered the ship right into the toilet 🚽 🛳️ 🫡 or an iceberg 🧊 anyways unless they can scam some more investors into giving out some major 💰 I think it’s pretty much game over.

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- Two layoffs in 8 months, limited confidence the company will avoid another one - Following layoffs, limited to no career growth available - Very process-heavy for a now small company - C-suite are misaligned, and lack a business strategy, sharing only short-term plans and ideas - Leadership are largely order-takers who say yes to every idea or mandate from C-suite - No diversity in the leadership team, everyone looks the same and comes from a small range of backgrounds - In some parts of the company, leadership doesn’t listen to the frontlines - Toxic culture where people gossip , fingerpoint, and shift blame to others - Lack of clear org communication, compounded by folks who choose not to listen when information is shared - Company is no longer in touch with its customers, doesn’t understand how their needs are changing