The only constant is change - Anonymous employee MycoWorks Employee Review

3.0
23 Jan 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The product and process at MycoWorks are very unique, interesting, and technically challenging. The employees are smart and wonderful coworkers. There is plenty of opportunity for cross-functional collaboration and innovation. Additionally, the opportunity to work in a pilot plant and to scale up to full plant operation is very valuable. The benefits are good although fairly standard for biotech startups, but the work-life balance is notably better than many companies and the company culture genuinely allows reasonable usage of unlimited PTO by salaried workers- I’d estimate that ~4 weeks of PTO per year was pretty typical, but no one was keeping tabs.

Cons

While everyone says the only constant at startups is change, MycoWorks takes that to the extreme. The biggest issue is the erratic decision-making and frequent pivots by upper management, seemingly without consideration of data or a long-term logistical/business strategy. There is also a lack of thoughtful and consistent organization and structure, from department organization to business management systems, making it more challenging than it needs to be to complete basic tasks. Upper management is very unbalanced, weighing heavily on manufacturing and having little to no scientific representation since the CSO position has been vacant for almost a year. Overall the upper management seems to be lacking long-term vision for development of the technology and product.

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MycoWorks Response
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Thank you for your thoughtful review. As you mentioned, scaling up is a tremendous opportunity —one we feel humbled and privileged to embark on as a company. MycoWorks is a unique enterprise in that we’re doing something that has never been done before in history: commercially scaling the production of Fine Mycelium, a completely new category of material. As a company we bring together biotechnology expertise with innovations in manufacturing, process engineering and product development in ways that have never been done before. Some speed bumps along the way are inevitable in this process—but effective, transparent communication and employee empowerment in decision-making are high priorities for us, and we are absolutely committed to learning from the feedback we receive, including yours. As MycoWorks grows, so has our capacity for long-range vision in our organizational design, product strategy and technology development—and the input and agency of all team members has been essential to this. With the recent addition of our passionate VP of Technology Development and other strong additions to our team, we’re now positioned to bring technology development and manufacturing into closer collaboration and alignment. With that in mind, technology development efforts have been and continue to be laser focused on the product and process improvements that will enable our scale-up towards mass manufacturing. That is because MycoWorks absolutely prioritizes our product's commercial value and availability to our consumers, the brands we partner with and their customers. This can sometimes call for us to change course and re-prioritize goals which in turn, demands that we communicate effectively to our teams. To this end, it has been and will continue to be a foundational priority that all team members at MycoWorks are given the information and context they need to thrive in their roles and to understand any changes that impact them and their teams.

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