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Easy to say with hindsight. What if it would have worked out and their tech had revolutionised medical testing? Failures are as important as successes, and not

• bane 10y ago
  When I've seen things like this on Glassdoor, it's almost always a company that's closing in on a spectacular failure. It's like almost some kind of evidence of a specific kind of leadership driven failure mode. Theranos didn't fail because of lack of market demand, or even the failure of their tech, they failed because of how they were run and these kinds of reviews seem to be specific pointers to this kind of management style. Anecdotally, I once worked for a company that did this same thing and the feeling in the company much more closely matched the longer-form negative reviews than did the astroturfed reviews...all of which were written by one H.R. exec shortly before they were let go from the company.
• bduerst 10y ago
  This is anecdotal, but in my experience, the complaints about "everyone working long hours" is usually a sign of either: a) Poor planning on the part of management, resulting from not enough resources or hires b) Poor market performance, leading to having to squeeze more out of the existing resources to get the results originally projected to the investors Certainly there are people who like to work long hours and there are jobs that will give them all the work they can want, but those typically aren't the people complaining about it.