- Clover *tries* to care, but almost always doesn't consider the bigger picture of repercussions of big decisions and does a lot more reactive patching rather than proactive planning.
- Budget cuts are deep. Employees are feeling it. There's not too much management can do about it given the state of the business. No more free lunch in SF, lower quality snacks, and no more anniversary gifts. Also no Christmas gifts/bonuses. Holiday party is in January.
- Clover shoves the concept of "one role, one comp" in your face, but doesn't actually keep to this. I can tell you right now that engineers get different sign-on bonuses and salaries for the same level depending on when they started. So for example, I've heard people starting in 2017 at a level 2 get paid less than someone who started in 2018 at level 2 (makes sense in the market, but DEFINITELY not one role, one comp). Salaries are not always adjusted yearly (no set annual raises; occasional annual "market adjustment"). No bonuses. Low amount of stock options.
- Large amounts of politics at this company. If you're best friends with a C-level exec, then you're good to go. If not, you're constantly fighting the politics to get anything done.
- Managers are not always good people managers. I've heard stories of people getting laughed at when they bring up they want to get promoted in the company. That's just rude. There's no consistency for quality of managers' performance.
- It feels like Clover is constantly tackling the same problems and throwing different people at the problems and not getting anywhere. At least, that's how it was for the past 2+ years I've been here.
- Finance team is a joke here. I've heard too many stories that I really can't share here (to protect confidentiality).
- Overall employee morale seems low -- just talking to folks on different teams about their experience working at Clover paints a picture of the challenges they face and their unhappiness with a lot of the aspects of culture here.
