I have never seen a company this large ran so poorly. The communication across product verticals and down to the development teams is abysmal.
Layoffs are frequent and sneaky. People just disappear from slack one day with zero acknowledgement from leadership. Most “underperformance” is a direct result of poor leadership and calloused upper management decisions that have no regard for the people it impacts.
Engineering leaders are hyper critical and distrusting of anyone outside of the brotherhood. Micromanagement is a common practice of Angi leadership, and it is not uncommon to have the failure of imposed leadership decisions placed on the teams. I have seen entire teams removed for “performance” when a subpar leader failed to properly plan and allocate resources.
The upper leadership tries to run a large organization like Angi as if it were the small startup for which they are all most familiar. The result is chaos, and is a Petri dish for germinating mental and emotional burnout for their engineering groups.
The Tech Bro attitude is rampant among leadership who appear to be attempting to recreate the concept of boy kings the industry tried to get away from after Zuckerberg.
Since the Angi merger in 2021 the percentage of diversity in the Angi engineering group continues to trend down. Management skills are not a requirement for management positions, and often candidates with poor leadership skills but considered technical are prioritized over candidates with significant leadership abilities but viewed by the brotherhood as less than in technical abilities.
Middle managers have almost no say in the direction of their own teams and are often not consulted before staffing changes or compensation amounts are finalized. Engineering Managers are expected to stay relevant at a principal engineer level of technical aptitude while sitting in meetings for the majority of their time. The dichotomy of these expectations results in a stressed out middle management who have little time to spare for the teams they were hired to manage.
If anyone is paying attention to the meteoric decline of Angi this is a great case study on how to destroy three companies at once while lining the pockets of those responsible for their destruction.
