Bad craic 🤔 - Senior Software Engineer FuturU Employee Review

Remote working, work life balance, a lot of time to learn new tech.

The company's leadership structure was built on a foundation of camaraderie rather than merit. The CEO, lacking prior experience in this role, assembled an excessively large “leadership” team composed mostly of former colleagues. From the outset, the focus skewed heavily towards values and DEI, with limited room for honest dialogue. It often felt like a cult, where leadership introduced questionable initiatives, and everyone nods their heads. Those who dared to challenge or question the direction were quietly dismissed. Within six months, we saw a significant departure of engineers, tech leads, product managers, and others—some were let go, while others left for better opportunities. Despite these losses, hiring continued at a frenzied pace. Hiring managers were assured of ample funds, and the CTO encouraged growth hiring without regard to actual business needs. As time passed, the lack of a clear vision and sound business strategy became apparent to the board, ultimately resulting in layoffs. Predictably, the more politically minded individuals remained, while many talented professionals lost their positions.

It used to be a great place to work whith a different CEO, he had a vision and understood projects took time. The only good thing about FuturU is the people, everyone outside of management is lovely and works hard no matter how little some people in other teams got paid.

Most of the new upper management never had a clear mission and goal in mind when managing the company. Wasting money and time on projects that were clearly not going to create any revenue, and once said project was completed and no one signed up, mass redundancies happend (it was clear this was a waste of time to everyone bar the C Suite). But don't worry getting laid off isn't a big deal, its easy to get jobs now days apparently, in this amazing job market and to just get over it since it was harder to get a job in the 80s and 90s. We had a fantastic revenue generating product idea in development, but the time the team needed to be able to build it was not there and instead the teams wasted time on constant context switching. From never fully marketing the products to appeasing the partner company to support them which did not generate revenue. Its as if the C Suite set the product out to fail from the start. Once a quiet merge began to happen between FuturU and the partner company Newcross. People started loosing jobs to people inside Newcross. I don't expect FururU to last until April, it will be taken over by staff in Newcross, all work passed over with also mass redundancies there. It is clear both companies are in huge trouble. I have never worked somewhere where I felt so gaslit at every turn, Context switched every week due to C suite not being able to decide what to invest resource into, went through 20 roadmaps, failed products and upper management who sneakily tries to undercut people from other teams and butt in to work they had zero knowledge or experience in to make themslves look busy and big.