DTEN Reviews

Where do I begin: Leadership: Leadership doesn't care about their employees, the only thing they cares about is making money with a product that has little margin. They run a bullish culture that operates under the assumption of "do what we say or you are replaceable." The product has some upside, however, company is cash strapped and they can't deliver their product on time. For example, their Dten D7 75" was announced in June of 2019, and their is still a huge backlog of customers who have paid over $8000 for it, that have yet to receive the product. False promises: Equity in the company - For example the CEO stepped in front of the whole team during an all hands meeting in November 2019 and stated that all employees would be getting equity in the company or a bonus check, it's May 2020 still nothing. Offer letter - During the signing of my offer letter I was promised a $20,000 bonus for becoming a team lead. In March of 2019 the CEO pulled the sales team in his office, announced that I would be one of the sales leads. As the year passed I never got my bonus that I signed up for, I asked the CEO about it, he made his CMO negotiate the bonus with me and decided to give me $10,000 instead of the $20,000 because we are a "start-up" and cash is strapped. Ramp up period - March of 2020 there was a shift in the sales organization and everyone had their pipeline redistributed. The past two month's I had led the sales team with over $600,000 in sales and asked about pipeline distribution and having to rebuild my specific segment, I was told I would be "taken care of" and this new structure is meant to make more money and not less. When the month of March ended and readdressed this with leadership they said sorry we can only pay you 50% of quota, "are you kidding me!" Honestly unless your desperate or having a hard time finding work, avoid this place. They will make you fake promises, sell you big dreams and waste your time.

1) Weak Leadership +Poor Communicators: they passive-aggressively address perceived employee performance issues, and may even terminate someone "suddenly" without any coaching or performance efforts. +Volatile Personalities: the Founder/CEO often yells at people, even if he doesn't mean it (he blames his Chinese culture and a language barrier). +Condescending and Arrogant CMO: speaks down to people in the office, leads by fear and intimidation, and spends more time pontificating than listening. +Micromanaging: at every level, C-suite does not empower teams to do their jobs. C-suite also seems to refuse to bring in experienced mid-management and other leadership to own growing various teams. +No Empathy: Founder/CEO is polarizing. +No Leadership Skills: Founder/CEO leads by fear and intimidation and can have explosive anger. Unable to motivate, inspire or effectively organize teams. +Weak Business Acumen: they don't seem to know how to run a business, and it impacts the business and people's ability to do their jobs. "DTEN" is a new company from the former DisplayTen brand, but it's hard to think they're different. +Leadership will hurt the company before the competition would. 2) Poor Culture +In a word: chaos. +Chinese Origin: Founder/CEO expects all employees to work 24/7/365, with no respect of PTO, weekends, or after-hours. +Low Employee Morale: employees are less engaged and committed - they never speak up, even those who have been around for over a year. +Not allowed to work from home...but people (even leadership themselves) sometimes do anyway. +No accountability for employees, no consistency from management. +Managers don't set expectations, so people trip over each other in trying to understand what they're supposed to do and how. +I wouldn't recommend my own friends or family to work here with me. 3) Fiscally Irresponsible +Won't invest in tools or equipment to support basic employee job functions (or success). +Keeps company health and insights secret. +Overly stringent on some expenses, and questionably loose in other aspects. 4) Weak Compensation +Stock options are only given to the top, and select employees. +Employees are not paid at market-competitive rates. +Benefits are decent. +"Unlimited PTO" is highly scrutinized and management will question your work-ethic and job-performance for all PTO requests. Even for 1-day requests.