Poor leadership and business strategy decisions lead this once thriving company down bad path - Anonymous employee Dataminr Employee Review

3.0
Feb 23, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good work life balance, nice to contribute to a good purpose, supportive managers, nice co-workers

Cons

This company used to be full of growth prospects and fresh venture capital funding to chase its dreams and goals. Unfortunately, leadership insisted on siloing each department from each other, forcing employees to act like other departments don't exist. This ended up halting any innovation or ideas from lower-level employees, and forced everyone to accept the business plans from our executives. Unfortunately, leadership has not seemed to develop many new successful ideas recently. Ultimately, this lead to a huge reduction in force, and reduced employee benefits. And then the executives barely took any blame for the lack of success at the company, aside from the CEO, who was willing to take accountability.

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Dataminr Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We are happy to hear that you value the Dataminr mission and feel that work-life balance is supported at Dataminr. Your advice and candid feedback to leadership are appreciated, and we are working hard to increase collaboration and transparent two-way communication across the organization.

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5.0
Jan 27, 2026
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Pros

Great company with a very dynamic offering on AI for cyber security and physical security

Cons

Highly competitive market that is continuously evolving with AI

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Dataminr Response
3mo
Thank you for sharing your feedback! We are thrilled to hear that you are excited about our dynamic AI offerings across cyber and physical security. While the market is indeed highly competitive and evolving rapidly with AI, we view this growth and movement as a driver for our innovation. We remain committed to staying at the forefront of the industry to ensure we continue providing mission-critical alerting for our global customers.
2.0
Jun 5, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Interesting product we have access to use.

Cons

The biggest challenge has been the lack of consistency in strategy and leadership turnover, which makes it difficult for teams to build momentum and execute. Constant shifts in priorities create confusion and are frustrating. No transparency. The company is struggling to keep pace with competitors in terms of product innovation. Many teams feel they are spending too much time reacting to changes rather than building forward momentum. Too many time wasting meetings where everyone is camera off.

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