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CounterPath Corporation

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Time for CEO to resign... - Anonymous employee CounterPath Corporation Employee Review

1.0
14 Apr 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Product with potential, HQ in a nice city. Let me think of other pros....

Cons

CEO is a right bully, has no management skills, treats staff with disrespect, doesn't want to meet customers as he loves his ivory tower. He is probably more interested in playing golf and working from home then increasing share holder value or motivate employees. Share price knows only one direction for over 5 years and this is 'downwards'. Market cap only $10M. Business shrinking in a growing market... No one dares to say a word as CEO's management style is 'management by fear'. This guy lost touch with the market... Company has no vision, no clear and/or long term strategy, all they do is fire fighting to survive the next quarter. Entire Sales team gets churned once a year, no senior manager interested in building up a relationship to customers. Sales team only as good as its last quarterly result. No commitment to international expansion, no offices, no investments, no marketing, everything just lip services, only hiring contractors that can be fired quickly. Time for the share holders to raise concerns, inject fresh blood and replace the current CEO and some of the senior management team...

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CounterPath Corporation Response
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Thank you for your feedback – I’m going to do my best to write you a tactful response to your review. I’m glad you found the products to be of potential – we’ve heard the same thing from most of our team members. We also have our HQ in one of the most livable and beautiful cities in the world. Because of our great product, strong team, and great city we actually have extremely low attrition, compared to similar companies. Our sales team has had turnover but in a results driven climate it isn’t unusually high. Our CEO regularly speaks to our mission and vision at town halls but we are constantly looking at new, inventive ways to communicate with our team. We believe you can never talk too much about a vision – so we are expanding our communication mediums. Our CEO is a “player coach” who takes on personal accounts on not only an Executive level relationship but in issue resolution. This is pretty atypical of a CEO at a public company, but it’s how our particular CEO is wired and it helps him keep the beat of our team and customers. We are happy to hear more about your experience. Feel free to contact Gabrielle directly.

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

As a small company, Counterpath doesn't have many "management only" managers, and not much office politics. Most managers/team leaders are very technical hands-on, I feel this ensures that most engineers working here are good at what they do. I have been in this industry for more than a decade and have worked with a lot of engineers, some of Counterpath engineers are the best I have met. It's always great to work with the best. Time management is fairly flexible, as long as the job gets done in time. Many different technologies are involved in company's product, if interested, one has plenty chances to become expert in some areas just by doing his/her daily job.

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Long hours, it's not easy for small companies to survive, so everyone is expected to do a lot. Technical wise is demanding, and you have to keep learning constantly to stay competent for your job, not for everyone. Benefits could be better.

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