Lack of leadership is wasting talent potential - Anonymous employee SoSafe Employee Review

1.0
6 Apr 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are some genuinely lovely, smart, and talented people at SoSafe. Those people are trying their hardest to make good things happen.

Cons

It's truly so disappointing to see the decisions that SoSafe leadership has made and continues to make, especially regarding layoffs and reorgs over the last six months (and total lack of communication or explanation from leaders). There is a complete lack of vision from leaders, and no big picture that the company is actually working towards. Niklas seems to have some ideas, but overall leadership has no focus and makes snap decisions with no follow through or communication. The most recent Q&A session really displayed leadership's lack of willingness to take ownership over their decisions. When asked about recent layoffs that were unannounced and extremely sudden, they all went on the defensive and used "we're a startup" as an excuse for the lack of communication and reasoning. There is a pattern of layoffs happening to people 1-2 weeks before their probation period ends, which is just silly and immature. Hiring is an expensive and resource-intensive activity. Why are we hiring people just to train them and immediately fire them? Why could we not work on job training and helping them fit into roles that are needed?

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SoSafe Response
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Sorry to hear you have gained such a negative impression regarding communication around decisions taken. This is surprising given the extra effort done in order to communicate transparently (incl. the mentioned, regular Q&A sessions) - which was also highly acknowledged in our recent employee satisfaction survey. Regarding your statement on terminating work contracts before the end of probation: if we saw a pattern here, that would indeed be silly and a waste of resources. But in fact we have a robust and stringent probation period review process in place since quite some time now and all new-joiners are in close exchange with their respective leader in several pre-defined touchpoints. The vast majority of people are also passing their probation period. That the contracts with those people, where all efforts are nevertheless not paying off, are sometimes ended around the end of their probation period, is somewhat the logical consequence of having a probation period in the first place. In order to help you regain trust, please reach out via feedback@sosafe.de or drop us an anonymous feedback message. Thank you! Your SoSafe People team

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