Pros
1. Marketing looks really good. 2.Great employees/team 3. History of Success 4. The best part - Incredible product.
Cons
1. Marketing has no clue what they’re doing outside of graphic design. No one knows who MInIO is. The message does not resonate because they are targeting a market that does not exist yet. 2. They don’t empower their employees. Every decision is from the very top and often overrides prior decisions, making the company look foolish and childish. It erodes all confidence. Decisions are often about pride and nonsensical. We’ve destroyed technical partnerships and customer relationships with short-sighted decisions based on “feelings.” Morale is worse than any company I’ve ever worked at as a result. I overheard a call with a CXO of another company talking about Garima and she asked, “what the f is wrong with this woman?” Everyone spends their first months here defending and trying to understand the insanity but ultimately it comes down to they need to find us a new CEO immediately. It doesn’t matter what skilled people they bring in unless the team is organized correctly (HUGE ISSUE), the market is fully vetted and they start empowering and RESPECTING their employees. We have some of the best employees but we’re also losing some of the best employees because of the people in charge. It almost feels like they feel like they know everything of every field so I sometimes wonder why we’re even here! Our many years of experience and technical expertise are not valued, nor sought. It hurts to watch Garima making such huge mistakes and I cannot seem to determine the WHY behind her decisions as often it makes no sense at all. Every single team is just counting their days because at any moment we might get shot or we might lose a key team member and then we have to do their jobs too. You lose trust in your leaders who go in one direction and then Garima comes in and changes course but then realize they’re in exactly the same position you’re in. If everyone feels like they’re disposable slave labor, no one will care enough to be innovative. 3. The history of success does not scale especially with the top-down dictatorship 4. Truly an incredible product - one of the best I’ve ever developed- but we can’t win because of the terrible management decisions from the very top. We don’t even have an organizational chart to figure out who is who when we need answers. We’re too big to operate this way. I don’t see how all my product work will ever succeed unless this company either brings in real leaders at the top OR they get acquired and the new owners clean house. Either way, I can’t be successful here and now I realize I have wasted three years of my life for a brand that no one knows about.