CEO, Patrick Quigley:
1. Treats people very poorly in general. Calls people out in large meetings, thinks he knows more than the specialists in the area - you get the picture...
2. Thinks he knows what it takes to build software products, but he does not have a clue. What products has he built before?
3. Forces people to deliver upon unrealistic/unreasonable timelines. Their Guatemalan engineers were essentially forced to deliver an entire SaaS using the latest in real time technology in 3 months, when they didn't meet it they were squandered
4. He applies very questionable business ethics to the companies practices. Due not share conversion data with them!!! Their are not programmatic, in fact their CMO is directly involved in weekly vertical specific meetings to discuss price setting based on current pub and advertiser performance
5. Myopic and quickly jumps into conclusions and quickly executes on them - a very dangerous combo.
CMO, Patrick Cross:
1. One of those people that talks fast to sound smarter types, too busy to talk to anyone below him
2. Like CEO, directly mandates product specific features and changes down into development.
3. Also like CEO, he does not understand what it takes to build software, forcing folks to abide to top down delivery dates, but is the first to criticize when bugs come up.
Culture:
- Empty offices both in LA and in SF. So, bad office atmosphere
- Cut throat culture
- Every decision must through the Patrcks, bringing morale down and ruining any sense of ownership
- B to C quality personnel in general
Benefits
- health is good all others are either bad or expensive, no 401k matching at all
- Layoff policy 2 wks pay. Yikes!