Toast Inc reviews

Fintech management style is demotivating. There was a lack of empathy and appreciation for employees, and the focus was solely on meeting un-attainable deadlines. Number of lines coded is the only measure of impact. One person calls all shots kind of environment. Verbal abuse is common from the leaders. Few good managers left already and more will follow if practice continues. New joiners avoid Fintech. This style of management is not effective for knowledge workers.

Changes at the top level of R&D have brought in exectutives that surround themselves with their own yes-people. This group have started killing teams and restructuring others. Any dissenting voices are either shouted down or are "not a team player". Hiring freezes yet increasing workload is causing burnout on all fields while the people in charge write emails & posts with hollow platitudes yet have not listened to anything. Reviews are more difficult, with VPs unilaterally lowering performance grades and promotions are essentially no longer an option for many people.