Going down - Senior Software Engineer Dstillery Employee Review

1.0
13 Mar 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. The last few heads that are around 2. Few good initiatives in Datascience / MLE team 3. work-life balance

Cons

1. Employee morale took a downturn in the past 2 years and the new CEO and leadership did not take the right measures to help. 2. Current CEO was the CFO before (with no priori experience as CEO) and there is one thing he knows to do - Cut Costs. Recent layoff, not investing in technology and people, no replacement hires for developers that leave, no farewell send aways for departing employees, etc. are a result of this mentality. 3. Weak leadership begets more weak leaders. A few recent promotions, just to keep employees from quitting, resulting in more leaders who don't really know what they are supposed to do. Main reason why someone is quitting every other week. 4. Compensation used to be a selling point here - not anymore. 5. Trying hard to keep the lights on and sell the company -> I would be surprised if the company is still around at the end of 2020. (Makes me sad actually when I think about what the company once was) 6. Focus is more on rebranding the company to whats hot in the market - than introspecting and harnessing our true strengths to deliver value for clients/customers.

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5.0
1 May 2026
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Pros

Great work-life balance despite the growth stage at a time, great tech leadership

Cons

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1.0
12 Sept 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some of the best coworkers you'll ever have. Unlimited PTO (not that it matters now). Relaxed workload.

Cons

Everything else. Erratic management. Mismanagement. Senior staff keeping people in the dark. Favoritism. They just laid off 40% of the company due to management failing to accommodate for Google delaying cookies... again... even though they claim to be the best data science company in programmatic... they didn't see that Google would do the same thing they did three times before? And it cost good people, some with 10+ years of tenure, their jobs? Even with that aside, managers micromanage, if you're not a "company person" installed by the board, or working with the board, you're not useful. After the last round of layoffs they kept a skeleton crew to keep the ship afloat while they try and find a buyer to sell the company for parts to make good on the board's investment (won't work).

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