Pros
- The middle management and colleagues are a joy to be around. There are really highly talented and intelligent people working at the company which makes coping with the multitude of cons bearable. People really work hard to try and change the way things have been mismanaged, push the upper management to do the right things. - Compensation is good for those not looking for a meaningful job, and just want to clock in clock out. - Hours are flexible but your time won’t be respected.
Cons
- Leadership is weak, incompetent and delusional. The people placed into leadership positions have no experiences because they have been in the company for years and promoted because of that, not based on their actual ability to lead or manage. Bad management practices are rampant from publicly blaming/shaming employees (for failures not caused by them) and not owning up to their own mistakes as leaders, to not building up good processes to enable the very talented people they hired to do their job, low EQ, or any form of emotional maturity, micromanagement, lack of direction (changes every time the ‘leaders’ have those 2 week meetings in the chamber of secret), lack of transparency. If a leader makes it on time to a meeting, it’s a miracle. When the company goes through tough times, upper management disappears all at the same time to come back and again, in denial, claims everything is “up and up!” - As a result, the culture is hush hush that if you disagree or even suggest a better way to do something, you will get condemned or threatened to be fired. It stifles any motivation new hires can muster in the first few months they join and eventually everyone realises in order to survive, they need to become “yes” man or pack up and leave. - There’s a fundamental lack of understanding of how businesses work, from managing cost and burn to understanding market and competition to building good and healthy work culture. No Growth. The legacy product is mismanaged into an outdated, barely functioning piece of software and again the blame was shifted to the employees for not doing their job. While the root causes lie in the market and mismanagement of product development. But these real problems are not addressed because the upper management is too busy avoiding blame. - It is impossible for anyone to make any change (even though you’ve got some of the smartest people around you who try to also help change the bad habits) because of the things mentioned above: horrible dictatorship, severe lack of expertise and professionalism, and most importantly the non existent humility to own up to mistakes and fix them. It’s as if the upper management exists in an entirely different universe or they think it is acceptable to treat people (and run a company like this and think the investor money will keep coming in) - All of these bad practices came from the founders, the CEO in particular and get multiplied when they hire yes men into other positions - The positive reviews here are fake. Look at the Helpful votes and reach out to former employees to ask for a more accurate feedback of what it’s like working here
