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SumZero reviews

2.8

33% would recommend to a friend

(7 total reviews)

33% positive business outlook

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7 reviews
1.0
Sep 26, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Few if any come to mind

Cons

Management is extremely dishonest, and has consistently screwed former employees on everything from compensation (bonus payments & lies of bonuses around the corner), to equity, to benefits. CEO is independently wealthy and status obsessed, and sneers at people from less 'prestigious' backgrounds. Some of management's wildly unprofessional behavior has included firing well liked employees who turned in their two weeks notice, fundamentally misrepresenting arrangements w/ regard to equity, and vulgarly disparaging former employees to current employees. For anyone considering joining the company - please be wary. Management's reputation is so poor in the industry that the co-founder doesn't list his involvement on his Linkedin or the biography on his firm's website. The same can be found with numerous former VPs and sales folks. When SZ spun out of Winklevoss Capital, early employees included graduates of Stanford, Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, Westpoint and other similar caliber institutions. While I don't think educational pedigree isn't enormously important on an individual basis, in aggregate it's clear that the company is finding it more and more difficult to hire talent, so standards have and continue to drop. The ranks of top tier talent has been replaced by graduates of schools including Monash, Wofford, Kansas, and Bentley Universities. I find that the other reviews here are broadly accurate of my experience and would sincerely suggest staying away.

1.0
Sep 4, 2019

Wasted period of time in my life - so sorry I worked here

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Unclear at this time and in hindsight

Cons

- Below market pay - Inexperienced management team that does not care/no incentives - Treat employees as replaceable- no upward potential - CEO is so cheap - refuses to use company funds to pay for basic needed services; advising workers to keep trying to get free trials for services that run the business - No growth. The CEO is independently wealthy as a party to a very successful lawsuit - not out of his own investing or business practices. Was not open to taking outside capital that likely would have forced growth and brought in their own experienced managers and targets. So you are working for someone inexperienced who does not care, and you have to be wary of legal repercussions over issues - like leaving. - CEO is so condescending. You'd better know powerful people or come from a powerful family - he uses you for your contacts and then pretends like they are his own.

1.0
Aug 27, 2019

sinking ship.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible work hours & small team

Cons

Company compensation (already below market) is predicated on the systematic overpromising and underdelivering of "discretionary" bonuses to employees with limited experience with more serious professional environments. Management is cheap to an almost unbelievable extent, which has caused. ~the entire company~ to turn over during the last 36 months. New grads: having no HR, no 401k match, using your personal devices for work, and. being stiffed for referral /discretionary bonuses isn't normal. It's predatory. I've never taken the energy to post a negative review online, but this last year left such a negative taste in my mouth that I sincerely want to warn others. I felt my work experience and any professional development I may have had here was constantly undermined by management shuffles and changes in our sales strategy.

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