Values… what values? - Anonymous employee Own Company Employee Review

Where do I begin! The key to being a leader is recognising that it’s not just you who causes a company to have successful moments… it’s the TEAM under you who actually do the work. It’s a shame Sam the CEO doesn’t seem to realise that as despite the successes with the product stack, the culture and lack of any embedded values makes OwnBackup easily the worst place I’ve ever worked. The company spent all of 2022 over hiring in any and every department, irrespective of quality or need and then decided to make a huge % of the workforce redundant in November without any warning! This is after spending a huge amount of money taking the entire company to Vegas in July. Talk about a misalignment of priorities! The company preaches about values but runs the offices like high school (you’re either in the cool crowd or you aren’t) and they recently hired a new CPO who bangs on about being in the office, yet lives in Boston and works remotely! Nobody in that organisation at c-level could run a tap, nevermind a global tech company and I feel sorry for the staff who are left!