Non-inclusive, toxic, controlling, and single-minded company (read "money is the motivation") - Anonymous employee Kindbody Employee Review

The CEO/Founder is the worst example of a female founder, doesn't actually care very much about changing the face of women's health, really just sees this company as a cash cow. Micromanagement is considered an actual "management style" here ... meaning, you'll have zero autonomy or respect in your area of expertise, and you'll likely be pushed to just do exactly what leadership wants you to do. When you sign on to the company, you're under the impression that Kindbody is working to fix the fertility space, which is a broken, fragmented system. But what you're really doing, is making the system look pretty (e.g. a beautiful clinic, really fun marketing tactics) while not making any real change. There is virtually zero diversity on the corporate level, and this means both in gender and race. While the company will tell you they have an extremely diverse clinical team (this is definitely true, and truthfully the clinical team is the best part of the whole company), this doesn't take away from how much diversity is NEEDED in this space, and particularly at the corporate level where decisions made can factor in fertility issues faced by the POC community. To date they have a total of zero African American employees at their corporate office. The office environment sucks for a number of reasons— quiet, awkward, not fun (actually music, communal lunchtime, etc are not encouraged), very antiquated 9am-6pm structure (must be in before Founder and out after her), there are no opportunities for company bonding times (it's not viewed as relevant or important by the founder), by the end of the day, people are GLAD to be rushing out the door toward home. It's an extremely weak excuse for a "startup"— no WFH or flexible PTO time (instead, you're lucky if you're allowed to work from home even in an emergency situation, and your time off is subpar even in traditional company standards, let alone a startup's...), everything is competition based (not only internally, but all about "crushing the competition"), not everyone gets equity at the company (in a company that is far under 100 people and within the first 4 years of business). The core values that are not directly stated, but definitely made very clear by both passive and overt aggressions, are to work as hard as you possibly can, for as long and as many hours as you can, until you get burnt out. Then you can maybe take some time off (where you're still reachable when needed), rest, and then get directly back to it.