with all the negative reviews, the company still wont change - Anonymous employee AlgaeCal Employee Review

first of all, all the good things are fabricated. i highly recommend coffee chatting with anyone from the company to understand why the employees are unhappy. Working here feels less like being at a professional organization and more like being a background character in a CEO’s personal fever dream. For a company that claims to be "science-based," there is a startling lack of data used in actual decision-making. Strategic pivots are made on whims, and when those decisions inevitably fail, leadership never takes accountability. There are no apologies and no course corrections—just a revolving door of unhappy employees who eventually realize things will never change. The President and the CSO are childhood friends, which explains the impenetrable wall of nepotism. This isn’t a meritocracy. Power is consolidated among people based on how long they’ve known the CEO, leading to a culture where people with no relevant skills are paid more than the technical staff who actually hold the infrastructure together. The President seems to have no interest in high-level organizational health. Instead, he spends his time obsessively micromanaging the marketing teams and reviewing the most minute details of every single person’s work. It is impossible to get anything done when the top executive functions as a bottleneck for basic tasks rather than a leader of a company. It’s hard to take "professional" directives seriously when the CEO is literally cutting a steak in the middle of a meeting or bragging about Lamborghinis with company logos on them. The organization chart is a joke, including personal housekeepers and farmers alongside professional staff. They will move you into different roles without the necessary support or resources, promising "experience" instead of fair compensation or a raise. Leads offer zero guidance and give no path to actual growth if you do not join their hangouts. Leads will straight up tell you your role is not important for the company AND you are replaceable AND you will have no job in X years - like why would anyone respect you if you talk to employees that way??? it's a pretty crazy place and even with all the negative reviews, instead of trying to fix the problems, they just contact people to remove them instead of making actual changes. it just shows how the reviews are true and the inability of the company to reflect on its poor choices