Bait and switch with weekend work for little pay - Senior Software Developer WaveMetrix Employee Review

As the CTO in question, I would like to respond to some of the more eye-catching accusations presented by this former employee. I am genuinely surprised by some of the claims as they are in conflict with what I felt this employee communicated to me. Ultimately this employee’s experience resulted from a mismatch in our needs and his skillset. I take responsibility for vetting him and therefore for this error. This was a unique situation for us, but we took the learnings from this experience and changed our approach going forward. It was apparent early on that his skills were not where we had thought. I had hoped his performance would improve after he had enough time to understand our systems. Eventually I had to trim his responsibilities to provide extra time to study specific subsystems. I personally made up the difference. Over the months, we tried to invest significant time in this employee to improve their technical and non-technical skills; and he seemed appreciative. In the end, though, I was spending too much time from my own calendar to support his work. I am truly disappointed by this former employee’s comments because I felt like I make an earnest effort to make things work. I invested honest sweat equity to fix the problems. But in the end, we had too large a gap between my hope/expectation and this employee's knowledge. I must ultimately take the blame for this because I hired this individual and managed him. Finally, I feel it necessary to say that we believe we are in total compliance with all requisite guidelines and laws. We at WaveMetrix take our data very seriously and would never do anything to endanger our access to it.