awful place to work, cruel founder/ceo - Anonymous employee Clare Employee Review

1.0
29 Jun 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Talented, kind and caring coworkers

Cons

Avoid working here. It’s a very toxic environment, created 100% by the CEO and founder Nicole Gibbons. Nicole has a track record in the industry for burning bridges and is extremely mean. She is quick to badmouth people, frequently putting down employees, freelancers and consultants behind their backs and berating them to their faces for not meeting vague or unspecified expectations. She is unable to articulate what she wants (even when probed with questions) and it will blowback on you for not being able to read her mind. Not worth it. As a leader, she lacks personal accountability (roadblocks tasks that require her approval by not responding to messages) and basic executive functioning skills (i.e. time and resource management), setting unrealistic deadlines and ignoring her team. Overall, while the product may have some potential, this company has insane turnover and zero room for professional growth.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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