Abnormal AI reviews

Bad tech and product leadership rooted in the weak product and engineering backgrounds of the founders and founding engineers. We've failed to grow successfully in terms of technical maturity and product management. External senior hires have almost all failed to integrate and drive meaningful transformation. Key people have almost all been promoted from within, but they have not operated at the company's current scale, nor do they have experience witnessing that kind of scale-up. As a result, the company still operates like the small startup it was years ago. Major new initiatives and product launches have either been dead on arrival or copycats of others. The more senior the leadership, the more reliant they are on LLMs, and the more they delegate their thinking to them.

There was a shift in leadership last Fall and there have been cultural changes and not great ones. People are promoted without having the right experience required for the job aka senior manager roles. It seems like everyone is not happy and wants to leave. It is just a matter of time until turnover happens. There has been too many promises broken, broken leadership communication which results in a lack of trust, some managers are now micromanaging and it comes across as they fear for their jobs. They want to IPO which is great but ousting the entire GTM leadership sales team and head of people around the same time raised eyebrows.