DARTDrones Reviews

Overall, lack of any type of organization or direction. When you start, you feel confident that you feel heard and are part of a team. You are constantly reminded that work-life balance is important. Then it slowly changes and expectations become unrealistic after just a few weeks/months. The CEO is very sporadic on business decisions and seems to constantly be changing directions of projects to fix the "bleeding" of a bad sales week. In operations, she states that she wants someone to work side by side with her to take on the operation role to deal with all the things she doesn't like to do. There are promises of her releasing a small bit of control to you as an employee, but never does. Everything is siloed through her which slows down any type of progress because she has stretched herself so thin to be head of Company Dealings, Operations, Curriculum Development, Web Development, Marketing, Sales, etc. on every daily project or task. The CEO also struggles with any type of successful management skills. She tries, but building a "team"/inclusive atmosphere is not her strong suit. She allows veteran employees to bend her ear too easily. If Operations doesn't "bow down" to the Sales team and get their tasks done first, they will complain to the CEO. The CEO will then change procedures and project lists to make the sales team happy. Which then decreases morale and motivation in any other position. The work aspect of the job is not difficult, but keeping up with the personnel side of things with the CEO seems to be a constant internal struggle. There seems to always be at least 1 employee that she sees as incompetent at all times. You always wanted to stay in the middle of the totem pole, keeping you off the radar of being the bottom player. If you were the bottom employee on her list, you knew it. Communication & patience would decrease when interacting with her. While working in upper management, it was easily seen that if she didn't like an employee, or didn't like their work performance (usually without giving them a reasonable amount of time to perform) she would talk about that employee with every other employee in individual meetings and go straight to "We should get rid of them!" Usually with little to no coaching, just wipe the slate clean and move on. Very gossipy environment. I believe once she realized that Unemployment Benefits would be awarded to employees she fired (especially if it shows due to the employer not helping the employee try to improve), then the CEO started being more strict with employees and doing "official write-ups/formal emails" to use as proof that the employee was warned....but fails to actually re-train, motivate, or assist in the employee improving their performance. To which she then will try and do everything possible, including making false/inaccurate statements to the unemployment department about your "performance" to try and get out of having to pay unemployment benefits. The CEO is very uncomfortable with confrontation so having any type of real conversation with her about your feelings on any of your issues is met with an awkward conversation & never any type of resolution. Just a pat on the head to make the conversation go away & then hope that swept it under the rug long enough to change the subject and hope we all forgot we had an issue. This of course leads to a build-up of issues between CEO & Employees, employees with other employees, etc. until it boils over and then someone quits or gets fired. The CEO has a Master's Degree in Business but is absolutely clueless about the actual inner workings of running a business. Especially with any type of legal HR policies/procedures. As an employee that was terminated, I had to remind the CEO that per our state policies, I would need to have my final check within 24 hours. I finally received my check almost 72 hours after termination. Overall it is just a hot mess with so many moving parts and nobody really ever having a handle on anything.

CEO is clueless. HR does not know the laws. They are a start up without any of the perks. They are overly confident about their sub par business model.