Great Team, Terrible Leader - Mechanical Engineer Opterus Employee Review

The owner/CEO/COO/CTO/whatever, Tom Murphey: as scathing as the previous review speaking to Tom's abilities as a leader is, sadly, it's spot on. When interviewing, Tom will pitch himself as a "servant leader" where he leads you to think that his role is to provide you help as needed to achieve a common goal. When what you propose to do coaligns with what he wants to do, all is well; however, if what you propose to do is inconsistent to what he wants to do, there's zero room for discussion/collaboration, you get patronized and belittled, and at the end of the day, Tom gets what Tom wants, which most of the time is unjustified. So, in the end, you have no authority to make decisions, but rather are there to more or less carry out Tom's half-baked vision for an aerospace company. He undermines everyone behind their back, and fails to build up the staff who are trying desperately to make the very difficult and nuanced products work. Also, there has been a history of employees, specifically those closest to Tom in the org chart (most of them very well qualified), get fired out of the blue, so be prepared to be kicked to the curb at any time if you take a leadership role here.