Long hours. Stress. Micromanagement. Misogyny.
During my interview with the CEO, the CEO indicated that the workload would be stressful and would require me to work long hours away from my family.
When I talked with one of the employees at the company, the employee agreed with the CEO that work at Mat3ra is stressful and requires long hours. At the time we spoke, this employee seemed exhausted and had trouble keeping track of where we were in the conversation.
Everyone at Mat3ra gave me the impression that the CEO does not trust his employees to do their jobs well. One employee described multiple instances where the CEO started doing employees’ work for them if the employee wasn't doing the work in the exact way that the CEO wanted it done. Employees described the CEO as “brutal”.
During my talk with the CEO, he shared some of his opinions about women and human reproduction. I found his unprompted commentary on the matter to be both factually incorrect and degrading to women.
And to top it all off, Mat3ra was not prepared to interview me in the slightest. The interview was six hours long, but the interview only contained about 30 minutes worth of meaningful dialog. The interviewers spent a lot of time during the interview fumbling around, trying to think of questions to ask me. Most of these questions that they thought up on the spot were entirely pointless, bringing the conversation in circles. I got the impression that my interviewers did not know what they were looking for in an ideal job candidate. The CEO’s propensity to monologue did not improve this situation.
As a whole, my experience interviewing at Mat3ra was an enormous waste of time; it wasn’t even good interview practice. I walked away before they could give me an offer.
