Pax8 reviews

There were too many sales and marketing bro’s with pretty boy man buns who evidently believed that office administrators were there to be their mothers by cleaning up their messes in the kitchen and ordering their lunch deliveries. Narcissism and immaturity were rampant. The pretentiousness and posturing at all levels could be nauseating at times. You had to be very careful not to express your own thoughts or opinions or you will be shunned as a heretic. If your working style and habits didn’t imitate the practices of the Anointed ones, IE; including the incessant use of whiteboards to “visualize” your thoughts, multicolored sticky notes arranged in columns to track your “To Do” and “Doing” tasks, etc., then you simply did not fit in. Make your whiteboard renderings as busy and complicated looking as possible and leave them up for everyone to see. It would make you appear smarter. As for those tasks on sticky notes, the more the better. They too will make you look more important and busier than everyone else. Attend every meeting you are invited to and be sure to bring your laptop so that you can work on other things during the meeting. Ask a question or two so that you can appear to be engaged while not really listening, then you can continue to safely pound away at your keyboard answering emails.

Pax8 is a place where tenure outweighs experience, where niceties outweigh honesty and good decision making, and above all, where nepotism reigns supreme. Much of the leadership is made up of people who move their way through the ranks, which is good, but also faulty in its own way, as there is not much outside perspective brought into what is becoming a stagnant environment. The leaders who did not rise from within are friends of the others, previous coworkers, etc. Jobs handed out to those close, whose experience may not match exactly what is needed. Both these factors lead to wildly ineffectual leadership that has left many departments, some necessary to the day-to-day of the company, floundering, where good ideas die at their inception and ego reigns above everything. There is an air of that "good ol' boys" mentality that is palpable, and you better fall in line, nod your head, and say yes. Any challenge to the existing paradigm is seen as a threat, a threat to the only way leadership knows how to conduct the business, and a major threat to their egos. Good people are forced out, without a proper explanation, due to challenging the status quo, to asking questions, saying no to awful ideas, and more often than not, damaging someone in a position of "powers" ego. There is never a good explanation as to why good people are forced out, but the answer is there when someone's "friend" or one of the "yes" people is moved into the vacant position. There's only one word for it. Cyclical. And the Chief People Officer will inevitably respond to this review, claiming ignorance, innocence, ambivalence, etc. But frankly, she is the worst offender of it all. While simultaneously destroying the "culture."