Great company, poor management - Anonymous employee SiriusXM Employee Review

Management is mostly unqualified, not terribly competent. The top boss has the personality of a doorstop and sucks the life out of every room he enters. He’s paid through the roof and yet always comes across as miserable. Never worked with a boss before who seemed to have such contempt for everyone. His attitude trickles down into everyone else. Upper management only focus on subscriber numbers without much knowledge of their product or content, what works or what doesn’t. They coast on the success of the far more successful US parent company.. They spend most staff meetings just repeating what the US SiriusXM emails to everyone, making virtually zero decisions themselves. There are too many redundant middle-managers, sitting around bored, calling for meetings that should’ve have been emails. Very little happens after or during these meetings. It’s just about relaying how they’ll do whatever the US side does first. There’s job security because no one in charge wants to stand out. A manager actually told me that the secret to a management career there was to talk as little as possible in meetings and offer few suggestions. Because the place runs on autopilot without them. The company couldn’t and wouldn’t exist without the US parent company and brand recognition. It calls the shots, and their redundant Canadian counterparts pass that work off as their own.