Woke company with many internal process - Director Canonical Employee Review

3.0
16 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Full remote company. A lot of smart people, working with passion for their project. An engaging mission of the company. Precise and interesting rules for internal moves. Automatic salary review every six months. The real intention of the CEO is to excel in all aspects.

Cons

Too many internal processes to follow make up for more than half of your work time, while your own tasks get delayed. The result is that you need to work during holidays or weekends to keep up. 360 is good, but using it to harass employees makes it meaningless, as the whole company inflates the scores in an attempt to save their own teams. Internal moves are available only to the top 30% of 360 results, meaning that popularity is more important than real and measurable performance. Promotion tenures at level are too long: a graduate shall not wait ten years to become a mid-range technical engineer. The result is that good engineers leave because they get stuck and find better positions elsewhere. The woke system discriminates against males to push forward women, who receive special privileges and a much easier life. Diversity and equality are a pretest for women's specific privileges, training, and special treatments. Automatic increases are a good thing, but once you hit the salary cap of your role, you get stuck because you cannot get a promotion for five+ years. Highly stressful environment, not because of the work, but because of the highly time-consuming internal processes. Very poor product management and testing culture leads to low quality. Stress, poor company policies, low quality, impossible promotion times lead the best engineers to look for better offers.

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Cons

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