Very disappointing - Anonymous employee Welocalize Employee Review

Work atmosphere has gotten quite toxic over the past year. Company is only focused on pushing its AI business, well-being of employees is overlooked, work atmosphere is focused on performance and pressure (KPIs and performance metrics are key), speed seems to be more important than quality, no or inadequate communication (tone, choice of words) throughout the company, employees are barely valued, competent employees have been laid off and replaced with people in low-budget countries or not replaced at all (leading to some teams being understaffed for almost a year now) while incompetent underperformers are moved from one position to the next or even promoted instead of being laid off, a lot of unnecessary micromanagement, feedback is not valued, extremely siloed, rarely any benefits and low salaries (management travels around the world 5 times per year to be celebrated, while employees would have to pay for their train tickets themselves to meet them in the office, and teams are not even granted team meetings or Christmas parties or a bonus), low word prices is only leading to more and more incompetent freelancers and agencies that slow processes down and lead to rubbish quality, any attempt of being proactive or improving/changing processes is turned town immediately or remains unheard. Overall atmosphere has gotten worse since change of management. I had very high hopes when I joined the company, but the overall experience turned out to be very disappointing.