GoFundMe reviews

Oh god. As you can imagine, pairing a mission of "helping people who are experiencing hard times" with the pressure of a venture capitalist firm hell bent on making tons of money to make massive profits does not bode well. Lots of ethical implications, and as an employee it often felt like I was constantly watching a car crash. Remember the Trump Wall Campaign that almost every employee was against and asked them to take it down because it blatantly didn't fit our terms, but ya'll kept it up anyways because well..20 million and bad publicity. I get it, but..damn that was rough. Psychological damage from reading anecdotes of tragedies. For example..expect to personally speak to the parents of children shot at the next school shooting. You'll start to feel numb to the tragedies. Metrics focused work. I'm all for using data to guide decisions, but don't use data as an excuse to be bad managers. there are forms of value people can provide that fall outside whatever data model your team has built, and GoFundMe often failed to capture or care for that talent. It was exacerbating at times.

The culture gets old quick, borders on manic and forced. Bloated job titles and descriptions hide the fact that everyone's doing menial customer service work. No amount of perks will make up for that. It was hard to tell while there how people truly felt about the company because the vast majority of people had on fake sunny dispositions. The latest series of departures suggest there's underlying dissatisfaction among the employees.