It's Over for Groomercordcels as a plague of ex-Meta Middle Management Massacres Morale, Exhausts Engineers, Pummels Productivity, Murders Mental health, and Leeches the Lifeforce from Libertarian-enablers

Reviews are here (login required): https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Groomercord-Reviews-E910317.htm

TL;DR:

Management and leadership is horribly failing, no sense of plan in the company environment, people questioning why the heck they’re doing what they’re doing—like the darn transition from discrims to usernames. Lot of ex-FAANG/Meta employees are being hired.

https://old.reddit.com/r/groomercordapp/comments/1468sp2/with_groomercord_rapidly_burning_down_glassdoor/

With Groomercord rapidly burning down, Glassdoor reviews of the company further supports this "idea".

Shoutout to DexClem who even recognized the amazing feedback and reviews from Groomercord employees on Glassdoor. Here’s the link to their comment:

https://old.reddit.com/r/groomercordapp/comments/145w6ir/groomercord_is_actively_getting_worse/jnnal39/?context=3

Some reviews from the Groomercord employees:

2 Stars out of 5; Current employee:

The environment is very toxic and the 1 and 2 star reviews are very accurate. I wouldn't be surprised if the recent slew of 5 stars were planted on purpose because Groomercord really cares about the ratings it gets on here. Over the past 12 months I've really seen company culture plummet. First, we have constant turn over of leadership (especially with woman) and strategy which means that everyone gets wildly mismanaged and it creates a dog eat dog environment where there is no set direction for where our strategy is going. A lot of the managers who come from FAANG (Meta in particular), Snap and Zillow, have no desire to actually manage those who report to them and spent a lot of energy reiterating insights about our customers that we have understood for almost 2 years. The focus has turned from creating a premium product experience to creating an identity-less app that can be replaced with iMessage.

1 Star out of 5; Current employee:

Leadership is green and have no clue what they’re doing. Everything is perceived as urgent so there’s always more work piled on with short deadlines without flexibility to deprioritize other work. So many employees are taking mental health leave because they can’t afford to not have a job but they also cannot work in an environment this toxic. Not a disability friendly culture - there is a general lack of consideration in all their people programs besides the events for people with disabilities especially those who are neurodivergent. Talent development is a joke - our performance management program is one-sided and doesn’t fairly evaluate all faces of an employees performance. You are not able to share your opinion and often times give feedback openly otherwise you’re considered to not have a “growth mindset” or you’re perceived as “not having good intent” yes this goes into their performance management. There is a ton of favoritism - other people who are under-qualified being promoted or being recognized/taking credit for other peoples work. You can’t trust the HR team especially the HR Business Partners at all. They’re practically useless and cover the tracks of their friends who are toxic managers. Anything you tell them is not confidential it’s actually used against you in your performance management. They say they have a high performance standard now (lollllol) but toxic managers are never held to the same standard. They say care about people but it’s all a talk track I don’t even think they have a clue what the first step for caring for people is. Stay away from this place if you value your mental health.

2 Stars out of 5; Current employee:

They laid off or pushed around 6% of the workforce to leave this year so far. The PIP and performance review process just doesn’t exist for some departments. You can think you are doing fine but still be let go for performance without ever hearing from your manager until it’s too late. WLB is getting pretty abysmal. The departments that need resources and headcount are just being told to work harder instead, burn out is real among many employees. We have been in this “hyper growth” crunch with no real growth to show for it and barely any recognition of quality work.

2 Star out of 5; Current employee:

The marketing department imported a lot of MBAs and ex-Meta brand directors since mid-2022, and their jobs seem to be: DDoS attack ICs with micromanagey demands, pile sudden landslides of work on people due to poor planning, and hiring their friend's agencies to do unusably shoddy work and write redundant market research that’s already been done before. The new folks don’t know internet culture or Gen Z or even what seems uncringey to the average young person, but they’re often delivering mini TED Talks about their insights in these arenas to literal Gen Z coworkers, longtime online community experts, and trendsetters. Don’t get me wrong, some of these new folks are nice and trying their best, but there are a few of these marketing directors who just see OG Groomercorders as competition that they must sabotage so that their own (very out of touch cheugy) ideas can shine through. They've made life in Marketing so miserable, and so Game of Thrones-level political, that no one who does tangible work can thrive.

1 Star out of 5; Current employee:

Management is inexperienced with senior management being incredibly absent. Some departments are a mess — drowning in work that seems to have no impact. There doesn’t seem to be a single focus — no real solidified vision we’re working towards. We seem to work harder not smarter. Simple issues and under-developed processes have festered into deep wounds which have caused doing basic functions of my job seemingly impossible. Inexperienced managers who do not have the skills or experience to solve some of these issues can only provide the same 2 band-aid solutions that keep us in a perpetual state of insanity with no end in sight. No one seems to know what they’re doing and the people who do know or could make an impact are kept somewhat neutered. It’s become a struggle to come to work everyday. It’s not fun. The good people at the top seem to make decisions that make you look into the non-existent camera and wonder ”who asked for this?” “Is this the best you can do?” aka Jim from the office. Every comment made in these 1-2 star reviews are absolutely true. Whoever is writing these 5-star reviews with no cons are probably higher ups in marketing who get paid a lot of money to do — I don’t even know what or other overpaid individuals who are lucky enough to be in a position who don’t have to do any work.

2 Star out of 5; Current employee:

Over the past year we have seen our chief people officer leave, chief operations officer leave, and have stacked our recruiting leadership team with individuals who are all from the same former company. There has been no effort from leadership to understand our product or culture and they are actively looking to sanitize it to something familiar to themselves instead. Leadership has been missing meetings and has been absent over the past couple of months, which signals a lack of care and apathy. Recruiting leadership has created an environment where if you ask questions you are micromanaged and punished for speaking out. Middle management has been heads down and encouraging us to push through but the writing is on the wall. We live in a culture of fear.

Twittards discuss:

https://twitter.com/m_d_c_t/status/1668070983498977280