Exploitative and chaotic workplace with poor management and no oversight - Anonymous employee Position Green Employee Review

- The management being inexperienced at best and unfit at worst - The work load causing burnout within a year or two - The lack of organizational structure and separation between roles - The dull work - The low salary and the outright lies about it - The lack of sustainability - That it feels like a cult **The management** The managerial positions are filled through internal recruitment only, with seemingly little consideration for each person's suitability as a leader. Based on what I've heard, you're as likely of getting a really great, understanding and helpful manager as you are one that makes you want to go home and cry every day. I was unlucky and quickly discovered that my manager was disingenuous in their niceness and manipulative as a leader. They would play favorites, and if you made any mistake all traces of kindness would evaporate. Whenever I raised how something was making my work more difficult, they would gaslight me about how it wasn't bothering anyone else and then pass the blame onto me for not dealing with it better. I also caught them in lies multiple times, and because of the lack of a corporate structure you can only raise your issues with HR (who all seem to be new hires in their early- to mid-20's who feel as lost as you do). **The workload, the tedium and the lack of both organizational structure and separation between roles** Everyone at the company is new. If you've worked at the company for three years, you have seniority over 95% of people there. Which I would assume is in part because of the tremendous work load and accompanying stress. There is no system in place to ensure that your work load is manageable. Getting more billable hours scheduled per week than you were supposed to work in total was not unheard of. And the task of delegating falls on you, not the manager. There is also little separation between roles or clarity regarding what your job actually entails. The fancy titles don't amount to much and are mostly masking how tedious much of the work is. Nothing is streamlined for efficiency or ease and that might very well lead to you moving boxes in a form for three hours straight, even when you have an infinite to-do list stressing you out. The company claims it's a startup, that it's moving and expanding at a fast rate and that it's therefore expected to be a bit chaotic for the workers. But a 10-year old company, which recently had over 400 employees, is not a startup; it's a scaleup. And at that point you really can't have the same issues as a startup. Having everyone do a bit of everything might work for a startup, but not for a scaleup. Having known bugs in the software you sell that allow your own employees to make mistakes that delete all of the data input by a customer with no undo button might be okay for a startup, but not for a scaleup. Claiming your company is a startup at this point in time is a blatant admission of your failure to adapt. **The salary and the lies** You are told you will get a fixed salary, which is way lower than the industry standard, and a guaranteed bonus on top of that based on how your unit is performing. The bonus is capped both up and down and the average of those two numbers should bring you to industry standard. But it's a lie. You will get the lower amount every single month with no explanation. **The lack of sustainability** If you want to work with sustainability in any way that feels rewarding, meaningful or even tangible: this is not the company for you. As an SPM (Sustainability Platform Manager) you will be a glorified customer support agent, and as an SPA (Sustainability Platform Analyst) you will be a glorified administrator and tech support. Don't expect to apply knowledge you possess about sustainability or sustainability legislation and certainly don't expect to learn. The positions deal with sustainability in name alone. **The cult** Position Green is a place for happy people who love to work, who love their company and who don't mind staying late or helping one another by taking on more than their allotted amount. Let me rephrase that. Position Green is a place where everyone has to fall in line with the toxic positivity that permeates the company, with monthly meetings where statistics about the company are met with applause and cheers, and where everyone is overworked all the time and yet also pressured into taking on more work "for their team". You're also expected to always be social and extraverted at all times. Your colleagues are supposed to be your friends, and your work is supposed to be your life. There will be "fun" social events after work each week (think pizza party) and there is an expectation for you to join as often you can. Because nothing says fun like mandatory fun at your place of work during your time off from work, right? I can not express in words how relieved I am to no longer work at Position Green. They recruit mostly young professionals by promising meaningful work only to do a bait-and-switch with the actual work, while also overworking and underpaying them until they either quit or get fired for speaking up for themselves/threatening the ego of their insecure manager/prioritizing not burning out. So for a company claiming to help other companies become more sustainable, Position Green sure shows little interest in walking the talk themselves.