Poor Company Culture - Anonymous employee Detroit Labs Employee Review

2.0
1 Jun 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

• Most DL employees are super open, fun, and collaborative. • Flexible with working from home/remotely

Cons

• Detroit Labs' company culture is extremely strange and toxic. The company functions as a Holacracy (look it up), with an extremely flat org structure. There is functionally no management except for the company founders, and they are utterly uninterested in improving the day-to-day of the company. • Compensation is poor, as are benefits.

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Cons

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