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private:paxvapor
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1311020
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Apr 18th, 2024 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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PAX Labs
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San Francisco, CA
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The epitome of toxic culture and green/white washing
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Free health insurance for FT employees
Casual work environment
profit motivated
cannabis industry
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diligent people stressed out and overworked. Slackers and talkers get rewarded
extreme favoritism
Racial discrimination
sexist
unprofessional
under the table arrangements
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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0.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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4.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1311020
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Open
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spend time with employees - outside of the all hands zoom calls
Use Pax products
Take ownership of product roadmap, marketing strategy
Get to know customers and competitor products
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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2.0
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Open
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Apr 26th, 2024 06:55PM
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Apr 26th, 2024 06:55PM
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PAX Labs
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private:paxvapor
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1311020
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Apr 11th, 2024 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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PAX Labs
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Great Low-Mid Level Coworkers, but...
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The employees doing the actual hard stuff at PAX are awesome to work with, but management is not. Free lunch 2x a week for SF office workers and decent snacks/drinks. Office culture is sparse, but those who do show up are kind and friendly. Fully funded insurance options (but with caveats).
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Almost everyone above mid-level management cares only about dollars and not about sense. Constantly fluctuating priorities mean wasted money/time/employee effort. No matching for 401k and stock options equate to monopoly money. Frequent (1-3 times a year) layoffs utterly destroy employee morale and force already overworked folks to double or triple their workloads. Very much a 'pizza party' style of employee motivation. Even high achievers are denied raises or bonuses, but hey, you can have a nice logo-branded hat for your hard work. Healthcare/insurance options look great on paper, but in reality are a pain to deal with (have multiple logins for the 3-4 vendors used to handle all benefits). Claims to care about diversity, but then hires a boys club while laying off people of color, veterans, women, LGBTQ+ folks, and people with disabilities. Employee resources groups exist, though their effectiveness is minimal because everyone is either too overworked to participate or the employee base is so homogenized that employees don't fall into diverse categories. Asks WAY more of some employees while keeping non-productive parasites on the payroll for far too long. Little room for growth or upward movement.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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0.0
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2.0
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2.0
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2.0
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2.0
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3.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1311020
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Open
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Get your priorities in line and treat people like human beings, not "operational expenses". Management needs to stop chasing shiny new ideas every second and put the energy and money into products and people that have kept PAX afloat.
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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4.0
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Open
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Apr 26th, 2024 03:39AM
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Apr 26th, 2024 03:39AM
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PAX Labs
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private:paxvapor
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1311020
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Apr 9th, 2024 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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PAX Labs
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Engineer
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San Francisco, CA
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Do not work at PAX. Save yourself the years I wasted. Honest and detailed review. Red flag: Profit > Safety
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- If you like weed, you can tell your friends you work at a weed company. You can tell strangers you're a weed engineer. Some people, regardless of your prior resume, will take you less seriously. From former employees I've kept in contact with, it can require some uphill work to get prospective employers to see past "you worked at a weed company"
- There are, compared to the head count an incredibly small number of, good and genuinely cool people. The type of people that you will form organic, meaningful friendships with. Most of them have been worn down by the daily bull. But if you're cool, you'll likely find each other and commiserate and trauma bond over beer.
- I guess weed tech isn't the worst thing you can be doing in tech, but besides the hand wavy market stunt of our recent product that is an absolute joke compared to the seriousness of the climate crisis and the debt we've accrued there, nobody is concerned with climate change. Anyone who was actually interested in tackling sustainability beyond just yapping about it and caring for the 15 minutes of fame is long gone.
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- All the tech drama. Back stabbing, people getting under the table promotions, greed, lies worth a lot of money, gatekeeping of "need to know" information that affects consumer safety. You name it. It's happened. It's not quite as bad as a FAANG company, and arguably it peaked when our valuation was a number that it is no longer even remotely close to, but those things do happen here.
- I cannot underscore enough how messed up it is the number of times decisions were made and swept under the rug that prioritized profit over end users in some important, critical way. Disgusting. Extra crazy when you consider many of your own coworkers don't even know, and then you see them use the thing at work. I want to say a lot of the people who may work on pointing these things out are great, but the people who make decisions about what to do with the information are............not so great. The layers of secrecy given our org structure and use cases of our product are also...in poor taste.
- If you're not a VP or a white male (typically either with a beard, or with a palette tuned to IPAs) then there is no shot you will *actually* be taken seriously. The things some people say at company happy hours, behind others' backs, etc. about other coworkers is insane. When I say "be taken seriously" I don't necessarily mean in meetings. I mean in what people say and do outside of meetings.
- A lot of people here don't actually consume cannabis. Of those that do, expect several to be pretty... Bay Area techie about it. Over the time I've been here, there are only a handful of legitimate "stoner" types that have worked here. They tended to be the best/most genuine all around folks (it is a weed company after all?), and oddly enough were incredibly out of place at PAX. Many of them have either left or been laid off.
- Multiple layoffs have happened. The first one was orchestrated terribly and traumatically. The second one nearly as poorly. There was one employee who desperately needed to maintain access to the health insurance for reasons that were known to most everyone, and had been at the company for several years. A notable contributor. They didn't care and let them go anyway, saddling them with an incredibly awful and unnecessary situation.
- Separately, tons of frequent leadership changes. No transparency unless you're "in." If you have to wonder if you are, you're not.
- The roadmap is unclear all the time. Has had multiple, stupid swings. We originally raised $420 million a few years ago and flew the entire company to Las Vegas for a trade show that we all had to attend (which was stupid, and as person who likes to go out on weekends, if you think it sounds fun it was not fun). Anyway, I think most people on the side of the street could turn a profit if they were given hundreds of millions of dollars to make...weed products. Somehow, several years later, here at PAX we have managed to screw that up. It used to be the case that upper management was plotting around ensuring we'd maintain our X billion dollar valuation. Now I just have a pile of shares that are worthless. Our flagship product, the PAX 3, came out almost ten years ago....
- The diversity situation is so bad. Embarrassing. Weird. Usually I eyeroll when the topic comes up (from the perspective of: the action item is clear, hire multiple demographics of people, what are we wasting time talking about?) but given I'm more laid back/reserved about vocalizing my opinions on things like this.. If you're a person who cares about social justice at all in your personal life, you'll probably want to steer clear. Make no mistake, mostly unconcerned, we are here profiting off of weed. And I agree with the argument that given the company's demographics, it's not exactly something to be proud of. That's not to say all of the white people here are this type of person, or all of the men here are this type of person, or all of the white men here are this type of person. But by and large, that demographic is vastly overrepresented; especially when it comes to decision making power here. I can think of 1 example of an employee (they have since left) who was very outspoken about social justice related things and who also had respect among enough people to get away with saying what they'd say so openly, but it came with a whole lot of consequences. My takeaway from that was that PAX really does not like when people who don't fit into the mold speak their mind and give scathing feedback openly. I will acknowledge that there have been efforts over the years to address this, but those efforts do not compare at all in scale to the size of the problem.
- I still work here. I'll probably leave soon. The only reason I am still here is because I have a very comfortable role, and don't really need to put in much effort daily to keep the ball rolling and stay on payroll. I've seen enough of tech to know that there are much, much better options for anyone who would be a new hire. I know can be tempting given the allure of "a weed company" and the current job market, but I've worked here for a number of years. Steer clear.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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0.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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2.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1311020
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Open
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I've given management advice tons of times over the years internally. I think we're actively contributing to making the world worse in a lot of ways. This doesn't apply to literally each and every person in management, and to be clear, a lot of the people who this does apply to have left. But for many of you: Your greed has caused a lot of pain to employees and customers in ways that are, for everyone in the room, frustratingly and obnoxiously obvious. If you have to wonder if this applies to you, it might.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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6.0
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Open
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Apr 12th, 2024 03:52PM
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Apr 12th, 2024 03:52PM
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PAX Labs
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private:paxvapor
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1311020
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Mar 15th, 2024 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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PAX Labs
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Mechanical Engineer
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Lacks Strucrure
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Work is good and a bit laid back when they want it to be.
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Lacks Strong Leader
Non-reliable management
No business structure
No retention
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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0.0
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1.0
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3.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1311020
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Open
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A company grows whey they value their employees and work on retention.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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1.0
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Open
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Mar 17th, 2024 07:49AM
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Mar 17th, 2024 07:49AM
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PAX Labs
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private:paxvapor
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1311020
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Mar 14th, 2024 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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PAX Labs
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Autonation Engineer Co-op
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San Francisco, CA
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Great Community, Management Changes Constantly
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I loved working there and learned so much, people are so nice, smart, and great to work with!
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The management changes quite often and lay offs happen to good workers.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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5.0
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4.0
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5.0
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1311020
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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INTERN
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No
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No
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1.0
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Open
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Mar 17th, 2024 07:49AM
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Mar 17th, 2024 07:49AM
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PAX Labs
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private:paxvapor
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1311020
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Jan 11th, 2024 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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PAX Labs
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Customer Success Manager
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San Francisco, CA
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Great
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Strong leadership and caring people
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Cannabis industry is quite tumultuous
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1.0
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APPROVE
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0.0
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5.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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1311020
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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Open
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Jan 13th, 2024 05:46PM
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Jan 13th, 2024 05:46PM
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PAX Labs
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private:paxvapor
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1311020
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Jan 6th, 2024 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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PAX Labs
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Accounting
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San Francisco, CA
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It’s ok
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Great pay & good benefits
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A lot of turnover……. Doesn’t look good
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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0.0
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2.0
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2.0
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3.0
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1.0
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5.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1311020
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Open
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Jan 9th, 2024 06:16AM
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Jan 9th, 2024 06:16AM
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PAX Labs
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private:paxvapor
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1311020
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Dec 22nd, 2023 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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PAX Labs
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San Francisco, CA
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Only if you must...
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- At the individual contributor level, great people: smart, able to focus on the big picture without sweating the small stuff, flexibility to navigate an insane number of program pivots, generally good humored and united despite a very challenging CEO; (mostly) everyone is really trying their best in difficult circumstances and there is a real sense of camaraderie because of that (some might call this trauma bonding)
- Good comp, especially for the industry (cannabis); note this may change going into 2024
- Fully remote
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- The company is structured to enable the opinion and will of the CEO (and only the CEO) whose management style is rooted in the belief that psychological pressure generates efficiencies and results (if you are at all an emotionally sensitive person, this is absolutely not the place for you)
- Decisions are focused exclusively on short term gains without regard to long-term brand impact (i.e. building a top brand to be here in 5, 10 years)
- No career development to speak of, unless someone leaves and you're internally promoted so you can cover their work load
- Inexperienced board lacks understanding of cannabis-specific fundamentals (both at the consumer and business level), making it difficult for them to pressure test or advise on annual plans and big strategic initiatives
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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0.0
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1.0
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4.0
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1.0
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1.0
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4.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1311020
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Open
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Allow the great talent you've got left the opportunity to do the work you've hired them to do. Beware the toxic work culture you've created and consider how that has a direct impact on the business and brand.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Open
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Dec 24th, 2023 08:33PM
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Dec 24th, 2023 08:33PM
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PAX Labs
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private:paxvapor
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1311020
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Oct 9th, 2023 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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PAX Labs
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Operations Manager
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San Francisco, CA
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Lacking Business Direction and Leadership
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Great people, decent perks, good location
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No engagement from leadership. Bro culture. Constant revolving door layoffs. Hires minorities to qualify for equity licenses. Product pivots at lightspeed in a desperate attempt to see what will sell.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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0.0
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1.0
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3.0
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2.0
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2.0
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3.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1311020
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Open
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No advice. The board is equally disengaged so no possible change here. Keep hiring ego-driven CEOs.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Open
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Oct 10th, 2023 05:49AM
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Oct 10th, 2023 05:49AM
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PAX Labs
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private:paxvapor
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1311020
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Sep 25th, 2023 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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PAX Labs
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Package Engineer
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San Francisco, CA
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Great place to work!
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Great working environment. The people at Pax are amazing and I've never worked in an environment quite like it.
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At times the Exec team was not the best to work with.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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0.0
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4.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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5.0
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3.0
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5.0
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1311020
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Open
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Sep 25th, 2023 06:44PM
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Sep 25th, 2023 06:44PM
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PAX Labs
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