INSANE TURNOVER, constant revolving door. 8 people fired or left in a small Boston team of 10 people within 14 months. In other regions somebody leaves every single week (extremely talented and hardworking people) – for a company of 250 people it is super alarming but management totally ignores it. If you express any concerns about existing processes or product or doubt your manager’s decision, you will be labelled “toxic” and fired immediately. All good deeds and years of excellent work are erased by any remotely mild criticism, proper Lukashenka style.
POOR MANAGEMENT, deaf to any problem of the region with huge ego issues, super underqualified insecure managers with no leadership skills/experience, with no validation of their work, poor grammar – total embarrassment to call that your boss and present to clients. They hire only internally for any leading role, mostly cousins’ club. Preference is given to family members even if they are out of school, did not perform and have zero expertise. Management salaries are totally out of whack with comparable jobs, local cost of living and does not correlate with their skills/experience/education. Meanwhile insanely hard working people get times and times less while working 10 times more.
COMPANY does NOT CARE about employees’ well-being at all, will save every dollar on people. Overtime is common, there are more bosses in the team than actual people to get the work done. Whoever is left in sales has to take over the job of those fired/left, no new replacements or hires. Poor insurance. No relocation package. HR is third world and will never protect you, they just shut you down if you have the guts to speak out. The messiest company I have ever seen in my whole life. There is no proper guidance or training, messy 100 pages’ instructions with outdated/wrong information. A lot of details only people who worked long enough know, but nobody stays long enough.
The hiring process literally checks if you can read and write, I thought the entrance test was a joke. No background checks. No proper testing of any basic skills. This explains the quality of hires.
EXTREME MICRO MANAGEMENT. You will have no ownership over anything. It is a super bureaucratic company with outdated methods from 1960ies, the absolute worst of Soviet Union, company has no entrepreneurial vibe. Things are done last minute or past any possible deadline and extremely poorly. Innovations are impossible to push.
Sales process is not organized at all. No forecasting, no sales pipeline, no planning or metrics, no new leads to work with, slow inefficient sales lead checking email content and doing zero strategy, not a single problem ever gets solved, everything is simply pushed for later. Managers are nowhere to be seen especially when there are any complex issues. It feels like a bunch of schoolkids playing with a business.
The company has NO PRODUCT STRATEGY. Product owners are totally isolated from clients and market; they don’t have any plan or deadline (“it will be done when it will be done”). Product owners hide behind sales team which has to face angry clients and feel shame daily for the insane mess/delay/awful UI/daily nonsense/unfair charges.
CLIENT CENTRICITY is NON EXISTENT and nobody cares about user experience. Arrogance is common, most people don’t take any recommendations or criticism neither from sales nor from the customer. The C suite really does not care, CEO is all into flespi and does not control anything while his buddies are sucking money out of his company.
ZERO ANALYTICS, no data driven approach, everyone is just doing what they “feel, believe, think” is best.
Super EMBARASSING CONTENT – sexism/racism (openly mocking African Americans and saying N word), not LGBT friendly (suggestive content, no sense of human dignity), low quality of English, unprofessional behavior and swearing.
Favoritism is very common. If you work hard, they will just keep pushing all work on you while others chill and do 2 months’ work for 2 years. It does not feel like a safe or comfortable environment; you can be fired at any point for any rational suggestion, super depressing place with no career opportunities, your brain cells will die daily. Hard working and talented people are not being appreciated. Constant bad mouthing about former employees. Would not recommend to anyone if you have any other choice.
