I am looking for some inside scoop. Reviews here are pretty bad but curious. #gaming #skillz
Absolute shitshow
Why bother? The reviews here and Glassdoor are mostly true. Everyone who is good is fired, left or looking to leave. People talk openly about how bad it is and everyone is interviewing. The churn for whoever works with CEO is simply too amazing. In just last one year - Aarki/CEO Founder 8 months VP developer 3 months CPO 10 months VP communication 6 months VP communication 1 month (yes the second only lasted a month) SVP Eng 6 months CMO 3 months GM Ads 3 months CFO 14 months VP marketing 14 months VP Strategy 12 months Seriously, don’t come here!
I don’t want to be doxxed.. agree with this.. culture has been shit since inception right from the sfo basement and Boston office
OP, do you intend to join?
Ex-employee here from the pre-IPO days. It's not worth the gaslighting, authoritarian, cringy and toxic culture. The 1 star reviews on GlassDoor are telling the literal *truth*. Skillz is a clown car about to crash into a slow moving train wreck, which is about to run into a dumpster fire.
How about the mandatory weekly “you need to play our trash games” like diamond strike and that random golf game ?
It’s a company run by fear and the CEO is incompetent, power hungry and vain. They hire good people, then those good people leave. Nothing to recommend it.
Skillz is horrible company to work for. CEO and CFO run it like a frat house. It hasn’t changed one bit in years. If you look at employee tenure.. it is horrible. Except for the CTO (now retired) who use to be engineering lead before IPO.. there was no employee willing to work. The platform is garbage. It shows in their ER. Please don’t waste your time even interviewing.