Redesign Health reviews about "layoff"

What was once a workplace where people eagerly wanted to build their careers has become one where management desperately tries to retain talent through hollow promises and performative incentives. Sadly, over the past two years, the company has devolved significantly, as evidenced by numerous one-star reviews, continuous layoffs, and an inexperienced, easily influenced CEO who surrounds himself with yes-men and discards those who dare to challenge the status quo. What culturally aware employees are now realizing is that Redesign has become yet another example of corporate greed overtaking a compassionate, mission-driven vision, all at the cost of employees' mental health and wellbeing. Despite having grown well beyond the startup phase, leadership continues to hide behind "startup culture" as an excuse for organizational chaos, mismanagement, and poor decision-making. The management team and self-proclaimed leaders appear oblivious to their privilege, more focused on maintaining their exclusive inner circle than advancing the company's original mission. The glaring gender disparity at the leadership level only further highlights the company's systemic issues.

They're running out of people to layoff, running out of money - wonder how long this circus will continue to run. Every LinkedIn post is another spin on a lie, every "new opportunity" is a chance to push work down to the lower employees while over paid employees at the top continue to waste time, money and energy.

They were so sure of their growth and yet, had layoffs every quarter. They assured me they’d settled and figured it out and I was laid off in under a year (3 layoff rounds while I was there.) It’s a shame, lots of smart people scrambling to do something good under misguided leadership.

The leadership and business practices raise several red flags and the CEO is by far the worst CEO I have ever worked with. Leadership: - CEO rarely communicates with employees, even at company All-Hands meetings. I worked there for 3 years and he maybe spoke at 4 All-Hands during that time. - Frequent, abrupt strategic pivots based on CEO's newest hire's influence - CEO is very secretive. Only uses Signal for communications - Any competent leader is fired or quits because they realize the CEO is terrible. COO left after 8 months. Every Head of Ops was fired or changed roles. Switched Product Leaders / CPOs every year. Business Model Concerns: - They launch ventures only to extract large "seed fees" from their portfolio companies. Now I won't say any numbers because I don't want to reveal any proprietary information but let's go through a ~hypothetical~ scenario where a venture studio starts a portfolio company and promises the incoming CEO of that new business ~$4mm in funding but then charges them back ~$2mm as a seed fee for the work they put into research and the support they will provide as the business launches. This *might* make sense if you have a huge platform team that's helping them build the business but definitely does not make sense when you layoff the entire platform team but still charge that fee. - Revenue model incentivizes quantity over quality of launched businesses, feels like a pyramid scheme - Very litigious against former employees, almost anyone joining another venture fund or healthcare startup is serves with a lawsuit - Shifting focus to Saudi investors after struggling to raise capital domestically due to poor fund performance Employee Impact: - Multiple rounds of layoffs - Teams spend up to a year building products only to face complete directional changes - Lack of stability or clear strategic vision - Poor resource allocation and business continuity

Disorganized company direction, experienced a lot of layoffs during my time, strategy highly dependent on overall VC market conditions

The full list of cons would be much too long, but sharing a few to caution anyone applying to recent openings: - Their coverage has focused on a "successful" fund 3 close (not exactly true), but fails to recognize the 3+ mass layoffs in the last 1-2 years due to a confused and inexperienced CEO - Terrible culture due to incompetent senior management with inflated egos - Extremely top-heavy and hierarchical, especially after the recent RIF. Now that there is nowhere to push the work downward, it seems they are re-hiring - Limited career growth opportunities: your performance will not be rewarded, and your role will be rescoped every time the company changes strategy (every few months)

Layoffs are more common than raises or recognition Leadership shows zero grace or understanding for employee challenges All meaningful perks have been systematically eliminated You will be doing 3 people's jobs and criticized when you inevitably can't do them all perfectly The CEO's management style completely lacks empathy or emotional intelligence Your mental health will deteriorate significantly