It's a Startup! - Engineer ICON Employee Review

ICON gives exciting opportunities to work with cutting edge technology, kind people, and exciting partners. Every day at ICON looks different and things are constantly new and different. It allows an eager employee to build a variety of skills and tools that they can use for their entire career.

Things at ICON are constantly changing. The ICON you may have worked at last year might not be the ICON you work at today. This can be really hard if you're not adaptable. It's also demanding and very "surge-y". It can be hard to predict when the big surges happen, but it's important to have a personal life that allows for periods of extreme commitment to your career (I am talking week-long+ sprints of working and sleeping only). This can be really difficult, if you aren't prepared for it. Another key challenge is that ICON is a true start up. Nothing is guaranteed. If you're looking for a stable and reliable workplace for longterm consistent comfort, look elsewhere. But fortune also tends to favor the bold.

Benefits, salary and the people at the beginning, which slowly eroded as they threw away cash like I’ve never seen before. Truly made me sick how investor money was wasted on trips, parties and ego.

It’s a House of cards. Lying about cost and numbers to make it fit the narrative. Un honest and incompetent leadership. Unrealistic expectations, careless decision making. Anyone with any sense is forced out or laid off. Bunch of yes men to the white hat in the ivory tower. Cult like. Most execs and upper management are his friends that have no business being in their positions. Fake it to you make it our run out of money. Not the first company the white hat has ruined and probably won’t be the last.