Tl;dr - Stay as far as possible, 9 people fired within first two months of hiring, more than 50% of tech team gone within 6 months. PMs run sprint and are incompetent at it. Leadership doesn’t think twice before shouting at their employee in front of everyone in a zoom call. Rumours about VP of engineering planning to leave. So sometime back i joined this dumpster fire of a company called Avataar, they make 3D models of ecom products and renderer to show it for 3D and Ar view. Some events that have happened - 1. One of tech team member got pipped within a month of hiring, we helped the guy but later leadership told him to resign and they’ll let him gracefully exit. After he did that, his salary during notice period was blocked and they told him he was never on pip and he resigned himself so he needs to pay back the jb. Basically they made a fool out of him and he got stuck. 2. The chief research officer of the company who was also one of the founders, first got demoted to manager position then later pipped. 3. The pm team have a superiority complex and even go to lengths saying whole tech team should be fired for being useless and laughing about it. They run the whole business and have neither a product roadmap or a feature doc, or any fucking plan about what to do. Basically how they work is they will think of a random thing and tell the devs to just do it asap. 4. The leadership has raised lots of money but is struggling to sell the product to any decent client. Pricing has been cut twice but still no one has made any purchase. Basically they don’t think twice before foul play and are building a product no one wants to buy with a team that can’t function. Edit - Everyone between the engineers and CXOs has either left or is on notice. TC - 42 + 5 +🥜 (base + jb + stock/yr) #Avataar #avataar.ai #company #review #bad #wlb #leadership #toxic
Thank God, I just rejected their offer last month, I am so happy that I did that! They have offered me same breakup as yours but was forcing me to come to office immediately after offer and that turned me off. Also, I had done my research too and was already in low confidence for joining them. I am saved!! Hopefully your this post will save many others.
Is it Avataar.me ?
Yes
Op what’s your total Yoe ?
It’s worse now …
how worse, a recruiter reached out to me
Last yr received an offer from them, the offer was really good, now I am happy that I rejected the offer.