Mediocre company - Product Department Role Aiven Employee Review

It's a very disjointed company with a management problem. Leadership suffers from an identified lack of trust. They are quite disconnected from the ground. They announce their strategy with marketing-sounding sentences to the rest of the workforce, who has a very different perspective about what we're asked to deliver so morale is not good. Reorgs, large or small happen every few months. They do not necessarily involve layoffs. It seems like Management doesn't really know what to do with the company. The idea is to throw darts at the board, and see which darts hit bullseye and capitalize. This might be fun for you if you are a tinkerer and like greenfield projects, and don't mind seeing them die. Otherwise, this might just be tiring and demotivating, which is generally the vibe in a lot of teams. Finally, the biggest problem is the level of communication skills. At many, many levels of the business, communication is incredibly poor. It's hard to get information, people decide what's important to know for you, or your questions/feedback just get ignored. This doesn't happen to manipulate, it's just that management doesn't seem to understand how to empathise and build trust. Upward feedback doesn't seem go up that much.