One of the better places I've worked - Anonymous employee Equi Employee Review

I felt compelled to write this because I was personally approached by the former VP of Marketing with a request to write a disparaging post about the founders and firm. At the time, I told her I wasn't going to do that because it didn't accurately represent my experience. Despite her insistence that the founders are "bad people," my lived experience is the opposite. I think both of the founders are sharp and well-intentioned. They always treated me fairly and supported me and my career objectives. I've maintained a good relationship with both of them since leaving and from what I've heard, the firm is doing exceptionally well now. I have nothing but positive things to say and wish the Equi team great success moving forward.

While I was there, the VP of Marketing, HR, and COO formed a bit of a "mean girls" group that would make a sport out of putting down the founders and speaking negatively all the time. This should not have been tolerated and it made the experience bad for everyone. I understand the firm was struggling to find product market fit at the time, so things were far from perfect, but the culture was really bad at the time. Fixing that is my biggest piece of feedback.

The mission here is real, and you can feel it in how decisions get made and how leadership talks about the work. The team is thoughtful, collaborative, and high-caliber without being cutthroat. As an HR Business Partner, I've appreciated that people strategy is treated as a core function and not an afterthought. There's genuine investment in employee growth, whether through stretch assignments, mentorship, or just the freedom to take ownership of your work early on. Work-life balance is respected too. Flexibility is the norm and managers lead by example on that front.

Like most growing companies, processes and structure are still catching up to the pace of the team. Some things that should be documented live in people's heads. If you need a lot of established playbooks it can feel ambiguous, but if you're comfortable building as you go, that's actually energizing rather than frustrating.