Clueless management - Anonymous employee Guavus Employee Review

1.0
23 Jul 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pros are all history. Clueless unqualified management has messed up everything. I wish we return to good times some day - after this management is kicked out.

Cons

You can never find management as clueless as here. CEO and his team visited India to understand the problems. Team readily shared the information. We were promised action. NOTHING happened. Either they thought entire team was lying or did not have strength to act on feedback. Unqualified India management does not know what is going on or what to do at all. Whole team, morale, culture is going down day by day. Only politics and no work. This is the only company where architecture team works on PPT only Where architecture completely disowns product performance Where taking initiative is seen as stepping on toes Where we have 5 CTOs and no direction Where whole management silently watches as a theoretical model is force fitted with disaster results and huge amount of money is wasted on incompetent leadership and process consultants. Had we spent 10% of this amount on team's technical training, results would have been different. Good people have attritioned. There is a clear leadership vacuum. We have made mistakes at every step and we are not ready to correct them - because here we celebrate failure not success.

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1.0
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Pros

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Cons

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