Our acquisition of the Symantec Cert Authority brought the absolute worst of California big corporate culture with it. The main culprit is our Chief Revenue Officer and his band of middle management minions. Unorganized, backstabbing, blame game, do nothings who cry and whine when they don’t get their way. These are Sales and Marketing folks who think they have technical skills. They are completely ignorant to how much effort it takes to do these types of tasks properly. BUT YET THEY GET TO HAVE AN OPINION ON HOW PRODUCT IS BUILT?!! WTF? What is really sad is that our CEO seems to tolerate this because the CRO controls the money. We are asked to take it on the jaw because if we complain the Sales and Marketing management might get their feelings hurt. Really hard to enjoy what I do when some unskilled putz gets to tell me how easy it is to build something. To be fair, I have met some great individual contributors in the CRO's org but the poison of the management team sours all of it. I can honestly say my org is not the only one that feels this way. What does it matter though? As long as the CEO and CRO get a fat paycheck when we sell again its all worth it I guess. DigiCert will be a hollow shell of a company by then.
