Ryan G. Smith

Beware LeafLink is a great place to move your career forward outside of LeafLink. There?s a great deal of favoritism here, as well as people with two years of experience being placed in management positions. Leadership seems to disagree on the future of the product and most efforts in that department don?t move anywhere or ping pong back and forth endlessly which leads to a lot of things not being built. I was made to build things on a whim whereas projects that I had done months of research on were rejected due to management not viewing it as a priority; management likes to take a mostly hands off approach until the eleventh hour wherein all prior research and work is abandoned in a manner that I?ll refer to as lazy fascism. This isn?t to speak of the toxic gossip culture ingrained in the company, the below industry standard pay, complete disregard for mental health issues, and unbelievable churn rate. Many people love working here because it?s their first job outside of college (or they wanna work in weed, bro) and have no comparison point but if you have any professional experience beyond 3-4 years look elsewhere or get an underpaying management job here. Also get ready to buy your own laptop because they don?t provide them, a fun fact that wasn?t disclosed until after I accepted my offer and only because I had asked (they are not upfront about this to anyone and multiple people have left or turned down working at LL for this reason.) There?s also little room for growth here and firings/resignations happen on an almost weekly basis with little to no mention or explanation. They are essentially a Series B startup behaving like they are still in the angel tier. But not my worst job by a long shot.