Block Reviews

Long hours, some times lacked transparency, most of the decision making comes from the head offer in the US. In late 2023 the company was told that there wouldn't be a mass layoff. Fast forward 3 months and 1000 people were let go globally and lot of people were taken by surprise. The employees outside of the US had a really bad experience when doing their consultative period at the end. There was very limited human interaction (all done via email) and HR was unresponsive when we needed them the most. We were only notified at short notice before being locked out of the system and 1 day earlier than expected. All of this has created further anxiety amongst the leftover of employees to what their job security looks like moving forward. It's a sad way for it all to end. At the beginning you feel like a valued employee but by the end of it you come to realise that your are just a number in a big wheel. We thought CashApp was different but It turns out it's no different.

Recently let go of many top talent even when company doing better than ever, using AI as excuse. Not sure why we are not using AI to get more work done, and generate more capacity and growth with current head count rather than cut headcount to do the same amount of work. Seems counter intuitive. Makes everyone who is left behind look elsewhere because no matter how well the company's doing, statistics so far show (with all the smaller redundancies that lead up to this big one) that we are all likely going to get cut. Except for senior management of course.