Airtable reviews

It’s truly upsetting to have seen this company steadily deteriorate over the past year. It really highlights how great the product is to have taken the company so far because good leadership clearly had very little to do with it. Real exec leadership feels pretty much non-existent at the company and any “public displays” of leadership are often performances or propaganda spewed at all hands that feel like they’re trying to gaslight employees into thinking everything is fine when clearly it isn’t. It feels quite disrespectful honestly. No one wants to spend an hour listening to misinformation for the “formality.” We go to All-Hands because we’re looking for inspiration, guidance, and real information on how we’re doing. Employees deserve that. We had 2 rounds of layoffs to “refocus” because we “grew too quickly” but instead of actually getting our act together and using this as an opportunity to refine our strategy and operations, it feels like leadership disappeared off the face of the earth. There’s a lot of foundational re-work that needs to be done in every aspect of the business, specifically how we sell, who we sell to, and how we will be successful after. This is especially true when targeting enterprise b2b but it’s like leaders thought all they had to say was that we would target that segment and it would just happen. They seem to refuse putting in any real work to make that happen, almost like they didn’t expect all the work they’d have to do to go after this segment bc they got too used to the product selling itself with b2c. Too many politics making even the most obvious decisions take forever to be made, and even then they are worse versions of what should have been done because people are just thinking about what’s best for them instead of customers and the company The B2B side of the business is extremely immature and yet we hire and keep leaders who either don’t have experience building a b2b business from the ground up or who no longer have the tenacity or willpower to do so.

The info shared by management in all-hands meetings is more like propaganda than an actual business outlook. This is a bit of an overstatement, but every all-hands meeting is just about trying to spin business metrics to make everything seem fine. And then, suddently: layoffs! Everything settles down, starts to seem fine again. And then... layoffs! It's gotten really hard to trust the vision and transparency of the leadership team as the economic environment has shifted. From a product team perspective, it feels like there's a bit too much process. Not overwhelmingly so, but the weeks we invest into OKR tracking, quarterly planning, etc. don't seem to justify the marginal benefits. Also: there's an underinvestment in product management. Existing PMs are overstaffed, and eng teams are often tasked with prioritizing product decisions that we are not really qualified to make