Awful HR practices and zero reliability - Product Owner (PO) RakeTech Employee Review

1.0
19 Jun 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote work, but they treat it like it is special somehow

Cons

The reputation of this company is a joke and it´s own claims of greatness are exaggerated. As many reviews have mentioned, they force workers into precarious situations without providing any job stability. They step on people, and they should be held accountable, instead they are hiding behind false termination letters. There is a lot of trash talking going on here. Before joining Raketech, I had received multiple awards in my field. I took the Product owner position at Raketech just for kicks, only to learn that my income would be cut by half. After eight years in this field, they questioned my skills and it was laughable. Some individuals in this company regard you as a threat and would do whatever to get rid of you. It took 5 weeks to conduct all of the 3 interviews. Despite being informed differently, entrepreneurship is not welcomed here. Some employees are given the opportunity to "grow" inside the company, while others are not. The on-boarding process was terrible. No one told me how to do anything, so I had to figure it out on my own. People think you are incompetent if you ask how things work around here. You can't win. They claim the company is "remote," but I was recruited in Malta and forced to relocate, only to be terminated during my probationary period. I was compelled to forfeit two years of earned unemployment benefits from my home country. They could not care less. It is evident that the HR department consists of employees who have been with the company for several years, but this does not indicate that they are good at their work. Most Human Resources places you under incompetent managers and take sides. You have no say in anything. It's easy to tell that the HR people are happy with their pay and have no plans to leave anytime soon, yet they are robbing this business blind.

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5.0
17 Jul 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great company to work for!

Cons

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2.0
28 Jul 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The "doers" I worked with were some of the best, most driven people I've ever been able to call colleagues. There are very competent folks at that level who genuinely care about doing a good job. I was compensated fairly for my work, and I felt as though my contributions were appreciated.

Cons

Internal communications were some of the worst I've seen at any company I've ever worked for. Layoffs in October of 2024 could not have possibly been handled worse than they were by upper management, and that set in motion a chain of events that negatively affected a LOT of very good people. The company's priorities have shifted very far in the wrong direction, and the "doers" I've mentioned who are left are nowhere near as supported as they need to be to do their jobs as effectively as possible.

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