Not a place to build a career - Anonymous employee Zymergen Employee Review

2.0
6 Jun 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some very smart people work here. Benefits are somewhat decent. They have pantries and free food. The company is innovative and true visionaries.

Cons

I dont see myself here long term. I haven’t learned anything new, I haven’t grown, and I don’t think they will be effective in changing the absentee leadership here. Managers and senior managers are all Professional Survivors and NOT effective in people management. They are toxic, bringing the culture down, and not effective in their roles. “Training”is a laughabale resolution. How are you going to benchmark if training is working? How are you pinpointing ineffective leaders to work on? G and A has lost multiple good people in a span of a month and nothing is happening to keep talent. Unfortunately the ineffective managers stick around 🙄

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