We’ve heard multiple cases of people being fired after something negative happens in their life (personal, conflict at work, etc) that causes them to be temporarily less productive at work [...] where termination happened with little warning.
We do believe that providing support, enabling people to improve, and building a healthy culture is generally more productive over time, even though it may increase some costs in the short term and add some ongoing maintenance costs. We do not believe that Redwood is making a well-calculated tradeoff that is increasing its productivity, and believe that it’s instead making short-sighted decisions that contribute to burnout and a bad overall culture.
As someone who started working at Redwood Research expecting an awesome experience and unfortunately had an awful one instead mainly because of the above, I wasn’t aware multiple others had similar experiences as well—though it doesn’t come as a surprise. Knowing my case was not an isolated one provides me with some solace, and will certainly contribute on healing the work-related trauma I’ve gained from the experience.
My condolences go to others who were unfairly treated there. I wish nothing but the best to RR leadership, and I hope they become better at interacting with employees and the broader community.
This was posted by an anonymous account. It’s pretty easy to create an anonymous account and post things like this without corroboration. This doesn’t mean that they’re always false, or that the things stated here are false, but I’d recommend that people use their best judgment and wait for serious evidence and/or corroboration before seriously updating on information shared here.
The moderation team doesn’t want to remove all content like this—it is in fact important to air issues like this sometimes, but it’s also important that we don’t naively accept everything posted by anonymous users.
Edit: moved the notice to the top of the comment, to make it clearer we’re not singling out this particular comment
As someone who started working at Redwood Research expecting an awesome experience and unfortunately had an awful one instead mainly because of the above, I wasn’t aware multiple others had similar experiences as well—though it doesn’t come as a surprise. Knowing my case was not an isolated one provides me with some solace, and will certainly contribute on healing the work-related trauma I’ve gained from the experience.
My condolences go to others who were unfairly treated there. I wish nothing but the best to RR leadership, and I hope they become better at interacting with employees and the broader community.
Here’s a note the moderators are starting to add on all anonymous content like this:
This was posted by an anonymous account. It’s pretty easy to create an anonymous account and post things like this without corroboration. This doesn’t mean that they’re always false, or that the things stated here are false, but I’d recommend that people use their best judgment and wait for serious evidence and/or corroboration before seriously updating on information shared here.
The moderation team doesn’t want to remove all content like this—it is in fact important to air issues like this sometimes, but it’s also important that we don’t naively accept everything posted by anonymous users.
Edit: moved the notice to the top of the comment, to make it clearer we’re not singling out this particular comment