Very Negative Culture - Anonymous CardFlight Employee Review

1.0
22 Sept 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Very good benefits. - Stock options will be valuable some day. - Good office location.

Cons

- Founder has extreme control issues and is involved with every detail of every project no matter how big or small. His obsessive compulsive focus on his unique idea of perfection just makes everything extra complicated and take way longer than it should. People spend a lot of effort just trying to stay off his radar or focusing the spotlight on others. - Company values are applied inconsistently and used as justification for behavior which in any other company would just be bullying. Office culture is all about favoritism, cliques, and calling people out as publicly as possible. - Employees want to litigate every issue over endless reply all email threads or in 100 page word docs like it is a court case in front of the Supreme Court. - Unlimited vacation greatly depends on your manager and team. Office isn't even closed on the 5th of July on a Friday or the day after Thanksgiving.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
6 Sept 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

CardFlight is a great place to grow your career. There are a lot of interesting problems to solve and the company does a fantastic job of supporting professional development -especially for fresh grads and mid-level folks growing their "senior" wings. It's very much a place where you can choose your own level of involvement and stake your claim as long as you can back it up with good performance. Comp and benefits are good too. The annual work trips are definitely a perk. Co-workers are friendly and professional.

Cons

For more seasoned folks, CardFlight can be challenging. Things move really slow, so if you are here to chase that bag 💰, CardFlight will test your patience. Unfortunately, CardFlight is not immune to office politics. So there's no shortage of sharp elbows, sycophants and back-stabbers. If you are good at this game, you can thrive in leadership. Engineering vision and leadership is lacking. There's a lot of hand wringing and over-thinking and no action. CTO seems more interested in grooming people than actual technology. Management tends to weed out high-performers. So the collective average of engineers is pretty low in terms of skill, experience and proactiveness. I wondered about this when I started two years ago but now it makes sense.

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