Inexperienced Leadership remarketing the same data labeling services - Product Engineer Scale Employee Review

1.0
Jul 5, 2022
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Pros

Smart people that leave as soon as they can

Cons

Exec Leadership that does not listen to anyone. Way too much politics for a company this size. Multiples of each Exec at CTO, CRO, CFO/Controller have left. This is not the sign of a healthy company. These were experienced leaders that all left FAST. They saw that they were not able to make the needed changes because of the Exec Inner Circle. Execs are happy just hiring a new round of CS majors and MBA’s and seeing how long they can string them along. GM’s of the Products are inexperienced leaders and micromanagers that have never built a business. WLB only exists as a topic that leadership says they have been working on for over 3+yrs so it is not changing. It is so bad that the anonymous employee survey has been replaced with a weekly survey that your managers sees and then asks you questions if you give answer with than 4 stars. Very awkward and no one wants to speak up anymore and just leave when they can. Attrition is terrible and the rumor is that you have to sign an NDA when you leave. People leave at one year if they have the cash to buy their options or you try to last 2 yrs if we need the options exercise extension.

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- Lot of flexibility as you get a say in how much core platform vs. customer-specific work you want to take up - Exciting growth avenues being pursued by organization in both enterprise and public sectors - Heavy emphasis on internal tooling being built that augments developer experience and pace of client delivery

Cons

- Sometimes, the team moves at a rapid pace at expense of sustainability/maintainability for short-term wins. - Lots of internal tooling being built are prematurely deployed for developers, and a lot of time goes into back-and-forth for gains that will only be visible in a large lookahead.

5.0
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Cons

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