Culture has gone downhill, micromanaging and blaming people - Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager Xplor Technologies Employee Review

3.0
17 June 2025
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Pros

Good benefits (unlimited pto, fully remote), pay is decent. Friendly, hard working people, tech environment.

Cons

Manager who believes in micromanaging and blaming instead of helping get rid of roadblocks. Trying to make procurement just another fp&a role. Constantly shifting priorities. Strategic plan that was created already showed there were not enough FTE's, yet they still add more work. In the last 2 years they've been many layoffs, lots of the knowledge and documentation is lost, making everyone else's job more difficult. There are too many products and verticals, and the respective exec's all want a different strategy, which leads to many different processes and vendors where it should be standardized dor the entire org. Org is not meeting target so no merit increases and reduced bonus. No budget to buy tech or add team members.

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Cons

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Explor Ever since Explor was purchased by a PE firm, every aspect of the company to the most granular detail has effectively gone up in flames. For anyone who needs context, PE firms are parasites that steal exorbitant amounts of money from the companies they buy out - and then they have 26 year old matcha drinking ‘financial associates’ in some high rise in NYC make pivotal business decisions that negatively affect hundreds of employees’ lives all because they learned in an MBA class that making the ‘costs’ line in the Excel spreadsheet go down would make the ‘profit’ line go up. The first ‘strategic’ business decision made was to cut down on software developers (to make the ‘profit’ line go up in Excel), which has resulted in a WORSE product - then they hiked the price on customers (Again, to make the ‘profit’ line go up in Excel) which as anyone would have expected, enraged ALL our customers. The resultant employees who didn’t abruptly leave are now tormented daily with more and more ignoramus ‘strategic’ business decisions and treated like ants that a child is playfully burning alive with a magnifying glass. If you want to be treated with any human dignity whatsoever, Explor will not be a good fit for you. However, if you want every day at work to feel like you are a participant in the Stanford Prison Experiment while simultaneously having to take calls at all hours from every customer who wont stop asking “Why does the software I pay money for to run my business no longer work”, Explor will be the perfect future employer for you to take that big next step in your career.

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