I want to preface that I am not writing this out of spite for the wrongs I've experienced from leadership because that leaves no one feeling good.... I am writing this to warn and provide insight on the hostile innerworkings of this company in hopes of not letting another talented, hardworking candidate go through what I experienced at this company. The leadership team does an amazing job selling you on the opportunities, upward mobility, the amount of business in their pipeline, and their flexibility with their employees - I had to learn through my own experience at the company that none of those rang true. -If you interview here and leadership tells you that they are flexible with work from home (which is what I was told), it is not true. We were told multiple times we had to be in office from 8:30-5:30 PM, and if you need to work from home/leave early, it needs to be approved by leadership first. In my experience, they communicated in ways that ensured you felt "guilty" about it/treated you as if you were doing something wrong. -The CEO, Mark Granovsky, is the most emotional, volatile, temperamental and hypocritical leader I have ever experienced in my life. While telling everyone in the company that WFH is not allowed (unless approved by leadership) on a daily basis in our morning SCRUMs, he was telling us this through a camera while he was working at his cabin for a month -- I still can't wrap my head around it -I sat in a meeting where our leadership told another employee to remove their pronouns from their email signature... as someone who identifies as a queer woman, that was such a troubling meeting to sit in on. IMO, I felt that I wasn't comfortable being LGBTQIA within the office walls. (I'm also not surprised as this company lacks progressiveness/innovation - a very "old-school mentality" lives in the minds of leadership) -As an IPM, you are in client services. You have 0 resources to do the work in client services and represent the company well in front of the client. What I mean by that - you have no ability to take the client out for dinner/drinks because their travel expense limit is $40. I went to Vegas and spent near $700 during my onsite implementation and was only reimbursed $370 due to this rule (I mean, what meal is under $40 in Vegas?) - so, thankfully I never took the client out for dinner. (Just a side note: leadership spent $400 on wine at a team dinner I didn't attend, but enforces a $40 limit on your personal expenses.... the hypocrisy at this company is REAL & LOUD) -Your technology that you're using to execute your work is terrible. Our internal messaging system was a free trial and we couldn't get notifications on our phones unless they opted in for the paid version. When I asked about this, leadership told me I'll just have to check the app throughout the afternoon/when I am away from the computer. As you can imagine as an IPM, not having a functional messaging on the app was.... difficult -In my opinion, this company is where innovation, creativity, and well-informed decisions on the product go to die. After 6 months at this company, I realized (IMO) we are all just creating, selling, and engineering a product that is only driven by the CEO/CTO's opinion - no matter how fruitless their ideas were. (I have sat in on meetings lasting over an hour where the CEO & CTO debated on what words to use for a particular button -- all the while, the software is riddled with bugs, issues, and was so hard to use... but the word for a button mattered more..... ha I wish I was kidding) -This relates to the point above: it was incredibly disheartening, toxic and angering to watch the CEO speak to some of the engineers (who, in my opinion, had a WAY better grasp on how to improve the product than the CEO because they were close to the IPM's during implementations). (IMO) He shut them down, cut them off, overly questioned and again, stifled innovation with our engineers -After returning from a successful implementation, and a happy client - the CEO never sat me down to discuss what can be improved, what went wrong, where do we go from here... instead, I was pulled aside by my manager who told me that the CEO "Needs me in the office more" after being in the office everyday, unless I got approved otherwise - that to me was my last straw at this company. An employee cannot change poor leadership nor should anyone take that on. Its time for them to wake up and recognize this is not how you run a successful company. Again, I could go on and on, but I believe I made my opinion of this company clear. Unless you are in urgent need to get a job, AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COSTS. No one deserves to be stifled, micro-managed, I have some serious trauma from this place. My biggest regret? giving them every fiber in my body to do the amazing work that I did. To all candidates reading this: learn from my experience, and find a company that respects your personal life, fosters professional growth, and encourages innovation and new ideas.
