Pros
Nice office, good snacks. The employees are very skilled at what they do.
Cons
- Too much focus on data. Your main commodity is the Freelancers, focus on them and listen to them to fix the site, rather than thinking everything is doing well because of the data. Do some user testing. - With the previous point, hire more designers. The company lost two of its best designers because there's no focus on how things work in relation to the user. - No rhyme or reason to decisions made. Every cycle focuses on too many things and it doesn't allow anyone to get anything done. - Too many meetings where emails would suffice. With that being said, useless meetings often fill up needed meeting rooms. - CEO meddles in too many things that he's not an expert in. When he does, employees are often strong-armed into following what he says and employee innovation is stifled. - HR? Hello? Are you there? - Onboarding is terrible. You learn nothing about the company and you watch an hour-long video from a keynote that the CEO gave a long time ago. - Competitors are far ahead. Freelancer advantage is liquidity, which is a lie. Claims to have 40m users, but in reality, there's about 300,000 REAL accounts and the number of posted jobs do not reflect 40m users.