A Company with Potential, Undone by Poor Leadership - Business Development Manager Prewave Employee Review

2.0
30 June 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Cool offsite events in the aftermath of 67 million euros in investment. These no longer happen. Office management are nice and there is one positive force in sales leadership, keeping it on life support.

Cons

Working here has been a deeply disillusioning experience. The company embodies the worst aspects of corporate culture—hierarchical, ego-driven, and chaotic—without offering any of the stability or support that might make it tolerable. HR does little to foster a healthy work environment, and minimal effort is put into training or upskilling. As a result, employees feel lost, unmotivated, and unproductive, while management remains unaware or uninterested. The product is highly complex—constantly evolving with weekly feature rollouts or strategic pivots—but frontline teams are left out of the loop. Salespeople are expected to sell a shifting product without guidance on positioning or value, making customer conversations guesswork. To make matters worse, sales and operations are not aligned, each led by different cofounders. The result is confusion, particularly around commissions and targets, which are often revealed halfway through the quarter. Sales enablement is weak, sitting under operations with little practical impact. The BD team, in particular, is under-supported, under-trained, and visibly undervalued within the company. Morale is low, and the psychological toll is evident—top performers leave, while underperformers are left to drift. My personal experience with HR was particularly troubling. I raised serious concerns about toxic, dishonest leadership behavior. Rather than being supported, I was gaslit—told I may have “misremembered” events. That response made it clear this was not a safe or supportive workplace. Finally, the company is bloated with middle and senior management—many in self-described “strategic” roles that contribute little of real value. Meetings go in circles, and execution suffers. There’s potential here—the product has real merit—but unless the company starts investing in its people, trimming the excess layers of management, and focusing on enabling its teams, that potential will remain wasted.

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5.0
25 Mar 2026
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Pros

Prewave offers a flexible work environment, which makes a real difference in day-to-day life. The colleagues are highly supportive and always willing to help, creating a strong sense of collaboration across the company. The company events are also very inclusive and help strengthen team integration. People management is handled with care and professionalism, and the overall technical level is high. At the same time, there are opportunities, feedback, and support for continuous improvement and growth.

Cons

As a growing startup, Prewave sometimes needs to make difficult business decisions in order to remain sustainable and continue operating in the long term. This can create some uncertainty that is common in fast-scaling environments.

1.0
2 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

At the time international office

Cons

Where to begin? There was no vision, no leadership, and no transparency. Strategy changed every day, and people with little understanding of the work were setting KPIs and defining direction. You could be fired at any moment for issues unrelated to performance. Training and support were non-existent. Staying there would only cost you your health and your time. I left on my own terms and have never been happier.

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