Red flag: founder/company culture - Anonymous employee Y42 Employee Review

Hey, It's Hung here. Certainly a harsh feedback to hear as the founder of the company and I would like to take some time and acknowledge your points. First of all, I would like to sincerely apologize for making you feel the way you did while working with us. It was never my intention and clearly not a reflection of what I as an individual and we as Y42 stand for. It is true that we are overly ambitious and this can be taken in the wrong way. As you certainly know, I grew up in Germany as an immigrant from an early age and have experienced enough situations in life where psychological safety was not there. This is definitely something I don't want people to go through, once I know how it feels. I might expect a lot from people, I recognize that, but I also believe that this can push some people harder and, consequently, grow faster - which I would want for myself as well. We at Y42 move fast, hold ourselves to an extremely high standard and break things to rebuild them in a more meaningful way With that being said, people at Y42 are the true reason why we succeed. Yes, I might be the only founder of the company but this allows me to make everybody participate in the success of the company and this is one of the reasons why we have fantastic people joining. We love what we do - we truly do. We want to create a future where we can enable everyone to work with their data effectively. We believe in that vision and work together to turn it into reality. If we become successful, money and success is certainly just a by-product of it. About our processes within Y42 - I understand your point. In our point of view It’s very hard to build a bundling product with the classic processes. However, as we grow and mature, a lot of things are going to change. Many of the classical processes that you would encounter in a single product company will establish themselves within Y42 but it will never be truly the same. If you ever feel comfortable talking more about this, I am open to hear from you!