Pros
I'll be honest, the team is great. They are able to bring on eager and excited young graduates, so the energy amongst your coworkers is the only pro to this work place. No positives other than your friends you will make with your coworkers, not the management. It will be a relationship based around a mutual hate and despise for the management(the CEO went out of his way to leave a unjust and undeserving terrible reference for me as I was seeking new employment. You had it coming. Just like you have your next failed startup coming) I worked directly under Will, the CEO (or whom we soon termed as "Kim Jong (w)ill" due to his tyrannical dictator like style micro management), so he shared his personal thoughts and feelings with me as I worked late into the night and it would just be us two in the office. Hearing these opinions and feelings, raised a huge red flag for me. He has a problem separating work and life and takes everything personally(he will take this personally as well). I remember that he even went off because a member of the marketing team was not responding to his Facebook messages over the weekend... He went as far as to ask me and his BD manager if he should fire him AT THAT MOMENT... BE WARNED I learned a whole lot, thats for sure, but that will be the case anywhere if you dedicate that much time. My suggestion would be to use all that time at another company. A company that will pay you correctly for your over time and be grateful for your EXTRA and OVER THE TOP performance. At Verlocal, you can expect these (at least) 10 hour days to be the STANDARD and what is EXPECTED.
Kontras
EVERYTHING. SERIOUSLY IF YOU HAVE OTHER OPTIONS, KEEP THEM OPEN AND PURSUE THEM. THIS SHOULD ONLY BE TAKEN UP IF YOU HAVE NO WHERE ELSE TO GO AND NEED TO GET PAID OR GAIN EXPERIENCE!!! HE HAS FAILED 2 OR 3 PREVIOUS STARTUPS BEFORE AND THIS CURRENT STARTUP HE HAS GONE THROUGH TWO ENTIRE TEAMS, ALL OF WHOM HAD LEFT TO ESCAPE SUCH A BAD ENVIRONMENT OR WERE FIRED. IT SHOULD BE NO SURPRISE THAT THERE IS A CONSTANT NEW WAVE OF NEW GRAD NEW HIRES. HE HAS TO HAVE A BLANK SLATE EVERY 3 - 6 MONTHS WITH HIS EMPLOYEE BECAUSE HIS TYRANNICAL DICTATOR LIKE (KIM JONG (w)ILL WAS COINED FOR A REASON) PERSONALITY IS BOUND TO COME OUT. HE HAS SERIOUS ISSUES. HE CUT AN ENTIRE TEAM(THAT IS RIGHT THE WHOLE TEAM) IN ONE NIGHT. HE ALSO SEES HIS EMPLOYEES AS NOTHING BUT REPLACEABLE OBJECTS STAY AWAY IF POSSIBLE. Also I know that the positive reviews on here are fake. I have spoken with former team members that said they were asked to leave positive reviews by management.
