Reputation reviews

Consumer product needs more work. Improvements are coming, but a bunch of things that the team has known it needs to fix for a while to make the experience better. It's overdue. Engineering has no top level leader for a while. They need to get a CTO or a VP of Engineering. Feels resource constrained trying to do so many different customer segments at once.

Since they're in the Bay Area they want so bad to be like Google or Facebook. Fun, hip, inventive, etc.. Unfortunately, the company and the products don't live up to their own expectations. Employees are pushed too hard as management passes the buck of "great" ideas down to the lower harder working individuals. Promotions are given to the employees that kiss up or play the game. The sales team are both treated like gold and slaughtered like sheep when they don't perform up to their expectations. Sales people are like car salesman and do anything to give the money from the client. There's always meetings on top of meetings between departments and team members yet actual progress and change is slow. There are rarely any performance reviews so any pay increase is out of the question.