Good people with the very bad management - Engineer Dispelix Employee Review

2.0
11 Nov 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- There's good healthcare. - People are generally good. - The company seems to openly promote good wellbeing at work and is very open about trying to improve itself. - Good place for a summer job or getting experience before moving on to a better job. - Good lateral and vertical internal job opportunities.

Cons

- Unfortunately, the only thing they can't improve is the management, because the managers aren't going to fire themselves, and they're not going to let themself be demoted. - The leadership is made up of scientists who would be better suited at doing science stuff than business management. - The leadership doesn't even understand how or why the management is bad. I don't expect it to get any better within 3 years, which is most likely going to end up killing Dispelix. If ALL the big issues aren't fixed by the make-or-break point of the AR industry, then Dispelix WILL break and fall. You can't have projects overrun their deadlines by months or years in the fast-paced tech industry. As illustration of bad management: - All projects are late. - Project managers mostly just update gantt charts and fill in excel sheets weekly. Good project management is more proactive and reactive and willing to get into the trenches if the project is derailed. - There are no postmortems or lessons to be learned after projects, so the same mistakes are repeated every time. There's no downside to the project managers for running projects poorly, so they have no incentive to improve.

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Dispelix Response
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Dear colleague, Thanks a lot for your feedback. We can read a lot of frustration in your review, also worries and sarcasm. You mentioned Dispelix is a good place to get experience “before moving to a better job”. It sounds like you are dissatisfied with your job and we invite you to discuss your concerns with a member of the People Operations Team or your manager. At Dispelix, everyone is encouraged to raise their voice about improvements. We are sorry to hear that you feel your voice is not heard. As we are constantly improving our ways of working, and we have founded the well-being group this fall where everyone is welcome to participate and bring in ideas. Please feel free to join. Concerning poor project management, thank you for raising your concerns, we will take them forward. Kind regards, People Operations Team

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