Great people, incompetent management, inadequate product
Pros
- people are talented and fun to hang out with, culture was great (pre-covid)
Cons
- CEO and management have no vision, mission, or strategy, which is reflected in the weak product, inability to sell the product, and minimal sales growth. - Weak product. It might have been innovative 7 years ago, but with no major improvements since, it's become primitive compared to competition. No clear product vision or strategy to steer the company around. - Wrong people promoted to leadership/management positions. Management team were great individual contributors, but have never had true management experience, thus unable to lead and cultivate a high-performing team. High turn-over reflects this. - Company focuses too much on fluffy self-promotion (interviews, meaningless awards, stuffy bios, news articles), not nearly enough on building a great company and product. - Flybits touts itself as an AI and data company, but no real AI exists in the product. How many AI engineers work at the company? - Culture used to be amazing, but has turned highly political and toxic. Lots of finger-pointing and blaming when things go wrong. Management is too focused on who's to blame, rather than fixing the problem. Founding members contribute enormously to toxic culture.
