Dysfunctional, Tyrannical Leadership - Sales Fictiv Employee Review

1.0
Aug 27, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The IC's and middle management work hard and are great people. Quite frankly, they are too good for this "organization".

Cons

Goals constantly shift and they are usually unattainable and they know it. They set them anyway to appease investors and then eliminate people when they inevitably miss. They move goals around so frequently, they forget they did it. Certain members of the C-suite will openly verbally abuse, bully, berate and belittle people in open forums. They are extremely and unnecessarily top-heavy with obvious redundancy. This is largely due to the cliques or "favorites" clubs that are established by certain members of the C-suite. Obviously the clique members are the only ones exempt from the wrath and abuse from the leaders. These same leaders make knee-jerk, non-data driven decisions without considering the consequences of those decisions. The leaders create a culture of fear leaving the IC's feeling like they constantly have to look over their shoulders.

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Fictiv Response
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Thank you for sharing your honest feedback. Commission letters containing goals for our sales teams were distributed in January for the 2023 year. We have not changed these terms unless one of our team members has had a role change. If this is untrue for your situation, please reach out to me so that I can investigate this further. Fictiv does subscribe to an agile and experimental mindset, so while the goals have stayed intact, the priorities and ways we achieve these goals may change to meet the needs of our customers and ever-changing market landscape. At Fictiv we have worked hard to build a safe culture based on compassion (one of our core behaviors), transparency and trust. It is disheartening to hear that this has not been your experience. I ask that you please reach out to me directly if you feel that you were ever treated poorly by any member of the Fictiv team. Unprofessional conduct of any nature that is witnessed, shared, or reported is taken very seriously and investigated by our trained PeopleOps professionals. We have several different systems that we use to collect constant employee feedback from our Fictors, including anonymous employee engagement surveys in some of our regions. Thank you for sharing that you find this method to be the most effective. As a current Fictor, I encourage you to please reach out to me directly so that we can talk in more detail about your feedback and overall experience at Fictiv. Though hard to hear, I appreciate your honesty. Thank you again. Sr. Director, People

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