This company struggled with every goal they announced since leaders and managers are weak, favoritism was rampant, knee jerk decisions were prevasive, and there was an overall lack of inclusion. The call center team is treated like second hand citizens. The leaders who were over this team acted as if it was some sort of sorority/fraternity, which is Avid’s culture in general. If you’re thinking of coming here, prepare to be professionally hazed where all decisions and industry standards no longer matter. If you are not a part of the inexperienced click who worked their way to the top when there were only 100 employees, prepare to age yourself with the insanity by 20 years. Prepare to work for leaders who will take credit for your work. In all of my professional career, I have never seen a business function with such ignorance. The product is also held together by duct tape, bugs are the norm, our customers are fed up, while the leaders there sit in their ivory tower with their favorites thinking of the next smoke and mirrors messsge to craft. If you are from a larger city, company, a woman, or someone who is not white thinking of coming here, don’t leave home without your bullet proof vest. You will rarely be promoted, or you will have to suit up and fight for one, while others who do not meet this criteria will simply collect $200 and pass GO & collect their next promotion with a high 5 from our disconnected CEO. Those who are not a woman or not a minority will simply view your D&I concerns as white noise (no pun intended) or insist there is not an issue. If this the case Avid, put your money where your mouth is and hire an African American executive, or hire a woman from the outside and place her in a corner office. When will you become a company who stops handing manager positions like they’re exclusive memberships with people who look like you? When will you provide career paths and fair opportunities? When will you stop calling your business unit “Talent “ and call team what they need to be doing HR? The only people bringing in Talent are your board members who are trying to save this house of cards before it falls. When will you invest in your people and stop letting good people walk out of the door? When will you clean house and bring in real managers, directors, VPs? When will you right your wrongs and start listening? You have lost good people, the few who are left are looking, you have lost good customers, your products lose data, but the one thing we can rely on you to do well is to sale what we don’t have and not take care of your people.
