LifeOmic Reviews

Pros

High quality technology Wicked smart people

Cons

Some people not pulling their weight

Pros

I was sad to be laid off from this job last year. They seemed to be an ok company, really nice people work there.

Cons

Imagine my surprise when my CPA (yes, I had to use a CPA) told me that the document they sent me on April 13th, just before tax season cut off, described me as a company PARTNER because I was provided with "shares" (with negative numbers). My CPA had to explain to me the legalities of this, it cost me $$$$, and then explained me that some companies do this to protect their CEO's bank accounts on tax time. I was hesitant to write this review, especially since they will know who wrote it, but, honestly, I don't want others to go through the same thing I did, so here it is. This company hides behind a mask of "helping the world" and "doing great things for humanity" but in the end of the day is just another capitalist company being led by your typical startup CEO who will always choose his billions over his employees.

Pros

Decent salary (although no longer competitive)

Cons

- Lame tech - General sketchiness about financials - Constant shifting in priority because there are few steady streams of income - Low morale from layoffs - Terrible handling of layoffs - Not much supplemental income - CEO doesn’t have vision - Non tech roles of CEOs friends valued over the people actually implementing things - Lots of back channel conversations

Pros

Great company culture that allows for work/life balance, hybrid environment, fun social opportunities weekly with lunches and happy hours as well as annual events. The work is a hustle and there's never a lack of things to do or ways to contribute which I enjoy.

Cons

It has taken us awhile to hone in on our vision and priorities and I feel like we're there so it's time to hit the ground running. We lost a lot of team members due to layoffs and are operating with a lean team with minimal plans to hire. This year is a make or break year for the company so my con would be business outlook.

Pros

- Salary WAS good - CEO was in no hurry to find market fit, which could be a plus if you were a dev who liked working on new stuff all the time

Cons

I'm surprised to see so few negative reviews from the layoffs that happened at the end of 2022. The CEO, after saying our industry was "recession-proof", decided to lay off ~80% of the company over two layoffs in October and November. And I do mean "decided" - the company is entirely funded by him, nothing about the product or the underlying economic situation made it so that he needed to do huge layoffs with minimal severance right before the holidays, and he offered no explanation as to why he felt like he needed to do it. His explanation at the time was that "Our company has 7-8 unsuccessful products and we need to focus on the 1-2 that have a chance of being profitable." Which is true! But that was also his decision - we did not look for market fit (or even really do any market research) for YEARS because this company is the CEO's hobby/passion project and he wanted to build things he was interested in first, then find a market fit later. So when he wasn't interested in this hobby anymore, he chose to upend a few dozen peoples' lives right before the holidays and tossed us into one of the most challenging tech job markets in a decade or two. He also did not pay out accrued vacation to those of us laid off, despite that being explicitly outlined in our contracts. The explanation was that our (small) severance was "in lieu of" paying out accrued vacation. The CEO is a very charming man, and is good at convincing you he cares - he's one of those guys where people were comforting HIM while he was making the layoff announcement because he "felt so bad about it". But he didn't feel bad enough to tell us the truth about the state of the company, or give decent severance pay, or even delay the layoffs for 6 weeks or so to get us through the holidays. A great time to join this company would have been two years ago! Those times aren't coming back.

Pros

- Really is a great place to work day in and day out. - Cool yearly retreat in the mountains of Utah. - Lots of room for personal growth. - Modern tech stack.

Cons

- I dont understand the company vision anymore. - Product is often not involved or gives conflicting guidance. - No sense of urgency.

Pros

A good place to learn and try something new.

Cons

Could be more challenging of an environment

Pros

A lot of opportunity to learn new tech, explore different solutions, and iterate on a product. Teams and coworkers were flexible and accommodating so we could all try to find our best cadence. There was a lot of knowledge and experience to glean from, especially in the senior/executive roles.

Cons

The products, company directives, and supporting tech did a little bit of everything. Several aspects of the company seemed scattered and disconnected. This shotgun-like approach made getting oriented very difficult and impeded the company's ability to get company directives to a profitable state.

Pros

Good culture and intelligent people, modern tech stack.

Cons

Company is a sinking ship. Leadership doesn’t have any vision and have been developing like a chicken with its head cut off, just running in all directions. There is no market for what they currently do and the company will likely go under.

Pros

Pre-pandemic - lots of fun activities, team building retreats, etc. Lots of opportunity if you're willing to sacrifice work-life balance. Hopefully this returns at some point.

Cons

- Mental illness is treated as a weakness. Don't work here if you suffer from mental illnesses. - Demo driven development is most rewarded - leads to inefficient practices and stress/lack of appreciation for those not working on easily demoable work. - Biggest perks aren't possible during pandemic - Too many focus areas and products leads to small teams being stretched thin. In some cases, individual engineers having to split time over many areas. - Equity is non-standard (profit units) which are difficult to reason about due to the many LLCs present and complex passthrough structure. In general, the equity structure is very opaque and I fear it may be possible for funds to be shifted around to benefit majority stakeholders instead of employees for certain scenarios. - Below average benefits. Raises are tooth and nail to obtain. Performance and compensation don't always correlate. - Hiring bar has dropped over time - lower output and expectations over time.