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Was hired as an engineer, transitioned to the product team. New boss got inappropriate real quick. Tried to walk me home, followed me to the bus/my gym, texted me all the time. Made hanging out with him outside of work part of my job. Tricked me into meeting him at a restaurant under the guise of work. There's more but you get the drift. I stopped responding to his texts. Got told I wasn't properly committed. Was given a bad review. Sent pages of text and slack messages he sent me to HR. Lawyer and HR said it was my opinion I was being harassed. Asked to go back to engineering to get away from him. Was promised that would happen. A week before it was supposed to, got told me I had to interview for engineering again. Only senior positions were open. Tried to find any other team or boss to work under. Company said no. Department got new leadership. Was told creepy manager was going to be fired. Never happened. I left well over a year ago. He's still there. Tech_Industry.txt

HR seems to try really hard to hear and act on employee concerns, but the impression is that they have no real power and nothing they say is listened to. Seemingly simple questions will go unanswered from HR for weeks, not because they aren't trying to get answers, but because the executive team won't or can't provide them. The CEO of the outsourcing company we use is also the acting CTO at Ellation. Somehow, the executives don't see this as a conflict of interest even though every single ground level employee does. That same CTO is incompetent at best, but that's probably being kind. He's done things such as telling employees that it doesn't matter if they have to work weekends, over the holidays, for for 16 hours, because they're on salary so deal with it (that one really helped morale). He took the timelines that product and project management were reporting as launch dates, changed what we were calling those milestones, and convinced the rest of the executives that he saved the project (even though we hit the exact same dates). Useless is too kind to describe him. The Product team is far too large, has far too much power, and has some of the least competent high level employees of any company I've been at. They are almost universally concerned with looking good and making sure they pump out new requirements for projects that we don't have the engineering manpower to actually complete. There are a few great people in the product org, mostly at the mid level, but you have useless Senior VPs protecting useless directors protecting useless Senior levels. There are engineers leaving entirely because of product. They made the baffling decision to completely remove the Project Management organization after VRV launch because "they didn't see the value" in the org. Basically every engineer at the company complained or had questions about this decision, and it turns out the acting CTO made the decision before deciding how anything would work with Project Management gone. Employee morale is at rock bottom. It's blatantly obvious that a lot of people don't care anymore and are just waiting around for their annual bonus, which can make getting things done take longer than it should. Pay is very low for bay area.