Laurel and Wolf Reviews

Pros

Great team, very memorable experience.

Cons

First time CEO, lack of experience.

Pros

- The company is dead - All the people, minus the CEO and the CTO.

Cons

Laurel and Wolf had a slight potential, but this is a classic case of what will happen when you have an inexperienced, illiterate, arrogant, narcissistic, extremely juvenile, pathological liar to be a CEO of a tech startup. Failure. The CEO made it extremely difficult to like the job every time she was in the office. The mood shifted dramatically when she was in the office versus when she wasn’t at work. She IS loud, childish, unprofessional and almost unbearable sometimes to deal with on a day to day basis constantly disrupting work for some others. The CEO forced herself into every department and micromanaged to a degree where she was using her employees as puppets to get her way. And when it all crashed down, she’d blame the employees, fire them FOR WHAT SHE ASKED THEM to do in the first place. Delusional. The CEO has a bad habit or deleting all negative comments online. As opposed to learning from what people are actually trying to say and learn from mistakes. It's called retrospect! No, your problems don’t go away because you keep deleting them from social platforms. It’s a temporary fix, just like what actually went on inside the operations of Laurel and Wolf. No vision, no strategy, no culture and OH no compassion. The CTO is as inexperienced as the CEO. He is a senior level engineer, with limited experience who ended up becoming an executive at the company. Has limited experience of running and managing teams. He was/is moody, rude, highly emotional, snappy and extremely passive aggressive. It made it a nightmare to work with both the CTO and the CEO all day, every single day. He didn't possess any leadership qualities to be an executive, but when you are BFF's with the CEO anything can happen, right?

Pros

None anymore, since the company closed down

Cons

This company was built around an wonderful concept and had a solid team of amazing employees and designers. Unfortunately, none of this matters when a company is run by an inexperienced, tyrannical, juvenile CEO. For years, the writing was on the wall; the company was plummeting fast. Rather than allow experienced people to salvage the situation, the CEO chose to lie, make horrible changes to the business model based on her own bad judgement and do nothing but blame others for her mistakes. In a grand finale of despicable behavior, she sent out a false E-mail before Christmas claiming the company was being acquired. However, this is clearly not the case. The business was forced to close. Rather than see the company through till the end, the CEO ran and hid like a true coward, leaving her designers without pay over the holidays, and thousands of clients out thousands of dollars, too. Just when you thought the CEO could not get any worse, she topped herself with the disgusting way she let her own company burn while she ran for the hills. What an embarrassing way for this company to close. When the time comes for the CEO to address the fact that Laurel & Wolf did in fact fail, she will of course lie in a comical attempt to blame others. However, the countless reviews online tell the ugly truth of what really went on here.

Pros

Work from home. “Flexibility” if you call flexibility working All the time and not making a living wage

Cons

Terrible pay, management constantly changing, under valued for work, CEO has no compassion.

Pros

Aside from leadership, the rest of the employee base is made up of great people!

Cons

* CEO has no experience running a tech company and is overly prescriptive in ALL areas of the business. The CEO's husband is a very successful VC, and based on the performance of the business, he MUST see the writing on the wall which leads me to believe he is funding her opportunity to "Play CEO for a startup" much like a parent buying Play Doh for their child. * My primary gripe is actually with the CTO. He is the least pleasant/professional person I have ever worked with. He is rude, moody, and snaps at people randomly throughout the day like a 5 year old child. He is passive aggressive and makes for a hostile work environment.

Pros

you can work on your own, make your own hours, etc...

Cons

Payments for design projects are too low and payments are often 1-2 weeks late They closed the company with an email to designers, provided little to no support when many designers were left still working on projects while also not communicating to clients of the status of the company. Unsure if the company will ever be re-opened