Good gig but... - Anonymous employee Jumpcut Employee Review

Hey there, Thank you for your sharing your honest thoughts and we’re really sorry to hear that you have a bad impression of Jumpcut’s HR process; that being said however, your review just blatantly isn’t true. We’re not saying that to be defensive or to antagonize you — we literally are just looking at the numbers. In 2018, we hired 66 people and let go of just 7 people. We won’t go into details because we want to respect those people’s privacy, but essentially the only times we have ever let people go, we’ve always: - given them a generous severance package (and plan to always do this) - already given them a number of warnings about the issues we were having with them (e.g. shady behavior, lack of improvement in their work, antagonization towards other teammates) - done it respectfully and only after the leadership team has discussed the decision at length; we take this matter very seriously and would never just let someone go on a whim or without much deliberation That being said, we of course want to minimize the cases where we have to let anyone go at all. We do think 7 out of 66 is a fairly low turnover rate, but we know we can definitely get better, and are working to lower the turnover even more. What that means is: we’re constantly iterating on our hiring process so that we don’t ever have to let someone go in the first place - but once again, rest assured that if we do have to do that, it is always with respect towards the employee (to be clear: if an employee shows any red flags, we always talk to them multiple times and let them know how they’re hurting the team and how they can improve — it’s only if there isn’t any improvement after these warnings that we decide to let them go). Now, regardless of whether you were someone that was laid off or just a friend of someone who got laid off, we hope you see our point of view and recognize that we absolutely are not a company with a “hire and fire” culture, or one that ever has just simply “laid everyone off” (this is, to be frank, an unfair exaggeration and we’re not too sure where it’s coming from). We hope this may shed some light on our point of view. If you (or anyone) have any other questions or concerns - feel free to contact us directly or comment back if you feel that you have genuine constructive feedback - we’d be more than happy to take it in! Peter