Worst Place, Chaotic and Unprofessional - Anonymous employee One Planet Group Employee Review

1.0
Apr 2, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- The people you work with outside the CEO and executives. - Good bonuses to buy loyalty.

Cons

- The most unprofessional company I've ever come across. - The CEO is an egomaniac and a liar. People are afraid to disagree with him. - CEO and HR force employees to leave good reviews and get angry if employees don't. - Runs like a religious organization. If you are a Baha'i, you get promoted and get away with everything. Religious quotes are on all company's merchandise. -A toxic culture and workplace.

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One Planet Group Response
3y
We usually take a different tone with our responses but in this case we cannot use kindness when one simply lies while hiding behind anonymity. To address some of your completely unfounded and libelous accusations directly, our CEO and founder has a reputation that goes beyond what your highly inflammatory and what can only be labeled as anti-religious comments. It's nothing but a lie when 90% of our management team are Christians of all denominations or follow no religion at all and you suggest that only Baha'is get promoted. This while only 3% of our employees are Baha'is and none have been promoted in over 18 months. One of our values as a corporation is "truthfulness under all conditions" which clearly you do not adhere to. Our CEO believes deeply in equity, unity, diversity, and inclusion. These values are baked within the very fiber of our company. The quotes used on our company material are: "let your vision be world embracing" and "work performed in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship"... We trust that none of those are problematic to any reasonable observer. We are proud of our company and our culture. Given your toxic attitude towards unifying messages and our desire to build a culture based on love and kindness, it seems that you leaving has been a great outcome for you and the company. Best of luck.

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5.0
Oct 14, 2024
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Pros

- Being a smaller company, employees are given independence to voice new ideas and try new things. Managers are always there if someone wants help and it really is a great company in terms of giving employees independence and not micro-managing. - The company provides lunches daily for all team members as well as a full kitchen stocked with many healthy snacks and drinks - The company has many different offices around the world including California and Utah in the US, Toranto and Victoria in Canada, as well as Armenia and Guatemala. While almost all team members never change offices indefinetly, some work in different offices for a week or so and its always fun having departments with team members from different backgrounds. - One Planet provides 5-10 service days (paid days off) per year where employees are encouraged but not required to do volunteer work. I think most people love to give back to others when they can and these are always a great oportunity. This is in addition to a conventional PTO system of 15 days off plus holidays. - The company has two company parties a year with one being near the end of the summer and the second being a holiday party to end the year.

Cons

- The 15 PTO days off a year does not include sick days. - In the past if Christmas Eve or New Years Eve falls on a weekday, it has been a "manditory" pto day. People have the option to work those days, if they dont want to use their PTO, but it would be nice if they were just holidays.

2.0
Apr 11, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The office is clean, and there is food in the office and parking.

Cons

Salaries at this company hover near the lower end of the spectrum, and securing a raise feels akin to searching for a needle in a haystack. The much-touted “profit share” payouts, like elusive mythical creatures, materialize infrequently and prove disappointingly insignificant when they do. Curiously, Payam proudly maintains that OPG is a profitable venture, and its annual profits seem to swell year after year. Yet, paradoxically, the sole beneficiary of these profit shares is the very capitalist who disavows their capitalist identity—an intriguing enigma. Meanwhile, employees grapple with astronomical healthcare contributions, a stark contrast to what counterparts pay at similar companies in the Bay Area. Although Payam has never explicitly stated it, the company’s trajectory appears to favor hiring team members outside of the U.S. as a means to maximize the size of his bank account —a direction that has persisted for years.

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One Planet Group Response
2y
Thank you for taking the time to offer this feedback. Our company has an open and honest culture, and we try to be transparent about the review process and how promotions and raises take place. We are always looking at our processes and trying to improve. As of last year, we are only hiring employees who can report to an office full-time, so we are clustering our hiring efforts around our physical office locations – Walnut Creek, CA; American Fork, UT; Victoria, BC; Yerevan, Armenia; and Dnipro, Ukraine. We are categorically against the remote work trend and have written about it extensively on our company’s blog.
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