Leadership is Lost - Anonymous employee Xometry Employee Review

2.0
Jan 22, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Strong, committed employees trying to do a great job. Competitive pay and benefits.

Cons

C-suite brings an outdated 50 year old perspective from sales and manufacturing and is trying to apply that to a technology/software company. It’s not working. CEO is absolutely convinced his ideas are amazing, and then constantly face plants. A recent order from him commanded all software developers to develop new offerings. This endeavor completely occupied all developers for close to 9 months. These offers have resulted in close to zero sales/revenue in the many months since launch. He has no idea what he’s doing. His sales staff is basically screaming for him to expand existing offerings, and can back it up with evidence, and nothing. The COO is panicked, flighty, and has no idea how to operate or manage above lower middle management. He constantly injects himself into individual orders, and forces staff to focus on items that are not and should not be the priority. He has on multiple occasions ordered VP level staff to drop everything and meet for multiple hours about how an order valued at less than $1000 could have been a single day late. All the while, orders worth many times that are not being managed or cared for because the teams who would do that work are stuck focusing on the wrong things. If the COO is doing this, who is leading the company? Who is planning? Who is focused on the future? This is heading for disaster.

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
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Pros

Can only speak for the product side of things: Good amount of smart people with diverse backgrounds. There is a lot of space to make an impact on the product. Many parts of the product are not at their potential so there is potential for huge company wins. Starting to hit our stride in terms of how we think about opportunities, product ideas, and implementation. Pace is fast but manageable. Will keep your mind fresh.

Cons

Occasional alignment chaos but it is definitely getting better as we create better operating models. Ambiguities sometimes manifests in teams rowing in slightly different directions. Coworkers can be pretty direct to a fault. Org needs to work on team mentality and just generally being respectful of each other in every way.

2.0
May 28, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Flex PTO was nice - Decent work life balance - Remote work

Cons

- When I received my promotion I was told that I would get back pay for the start of the year, they cancelled that and only gave us stock options -HR messed up my W2 more than once, AND DIDN'T PAY me one time. They accidentally switched my role to hourly when I was a salaried employee. - My manager promised I promotion that came a year late with a 2% salary increase.. - There was no growth trajectory - My manager lied to me on multiple occasions

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