Executive leadership has the charisma of a wet blanket, without doubt the most uninspiring leadership I’ve ever come across by a long way. No public speaking skills at all. There is a lot of arrogance and narcissism at the top levels. You get to see it all during company calls. The CEO throws around ridiculous goals which are never hit putting people’s livelihoods at stake. Every year goals are missed by a wide margin.
Sales leadership was bad when I first started and progressively got worse, none of them would cut it at a Fortune 500 company as a manager let alone at the ridiculously inflated executive level titles they’re given. Some EVPs and SVPs literally have no direct reports, they’re individual contributors. We have a Chief Revenue Officer who likens themselves to Scooby Doo. No one knows what they do. They certainly aren't growing sales, not even maintaining them.
There is no personal or career growth. ZERO career pathing. The key to promotion is the brown nose (these are mostly superficial, no increase in responsibilities, just a higher title), as a result many barely competent and some incompetent people are given ridiculously inflated titles. If you’ve come with experience in other companies, you’ll learn nothing at Nutrabolt, all you’ll be doing is fixing the bad decision by leadership and there are plenty of them. Mere managers at Fortune 500 companies have more leadership ability than their C-Suite executives.
The company has a complete lack of diversity. CEO paid lip service during the George Floyd protests so a bunch DEI training came out, they couldn’t have cared less before (never had any DEI training before or since). The company still has no POC in senior positions. In the end the company is run by white guys with a token smattering of women.
CEO lavishes perks on certain groups of people, and the beverage sales team, despite underperforming, goes on an international junket every year. They try to keep this quiet, yet there are posts all over social media about it. The CEO is completely oblivious to how the rest of the company perceives this. Then again this is a guy who cries poor yet turns up to work in cars worth an average house. Completely oblivious to how he's perceived.
Let’s talk about compensation. Salaries are low for Austin. Many are living paycheck to paycheck. No bonuses if you're not a manager, despite most the work being done by those who aren't.
CEO has said multiple times he doesn’t think people work hard enough to get anymore. Of course, then there are secret bonuses which only some of the company gets, despite it being an effort from everyone in the company. Word gets out further damaging morale.
As a result of all the above, the most talented people have left the company for bigger and better things. Nutrabolt excels at retaining poor to mediocre management, who know they couldn't get a similar title in any other company.
"High Performing" gets thrown around a lot. I've worked for high performing companies and leadership, this isn't in the same league.
TLDR - terrible morale, broken culture, greed, favoritism, and nepotism.
