Rokt reviews

- Management is often clueless about the people they're evaluating and performing reviews upon. They don't interact or work with you on a personal level but have no qualm talking about what your performance is expected to be or what your character is like. You can expect your career evaluation to be total theater where the final result is often disappointing without any transparency or oversight into the decisions. - Career ladder is entirely pointless - the company goes into such detail about what the criteria for success is, but reading it is a waste of time because the main focus for career progression is output, nothing else. In fact, I would argue that output isn't as important as conveying to the team that you work with that what you're doing is "essential" and "important". Work at Rokt is definitely political. - You could literally use AI to do your job and get promoted because the outputs are flashy and visual but do not provide any substance for the company at scale. Management misses the mark on this and they wonder why they're missing their revenue targets. - Hiring freeze: listen, you can hire a bunch of new university graduates to do the work, but don't be surprised that the output has gone significantly down because the actual productive hires are spending too much time babysitting the rest of the team. If Rokt was genuinely concerned about employee retention they should just hire competent people to do the work instead of discriminating against age and experience.

So many senior and / or talented people have left in the past few months. Management takes zero responsibility in failed GTM strategy or product investments, the answer to everything is unless reorgs ICs who work very hard do not really get recognition. Mid managers spend a lot of time brown nosing the leadership but do not know how to mentor their teams