Promised so much, delivered so little. Bullying, lies and big egos from little men - Sales Polymatica Employee Review

1.0
2 Oct 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Several years ago, this technology would have been somewhat impressive. But since then, with the plethora of amazing cloud-based services (Snowflake, Tableau etc etc), it’s all been done much better and much more affordably. Inside Polymatica, there’s an odd view that Polymatica is unique and the only solution for “customer data”, which is just nonsense. There’s nothing magical about customer data – it’s just data, but a lot of it. See above comments about Cloud-based services.

Cons

There are/were some clever people at Polymatica, but sadly many of them were pushed out shortly after the commercial team changed. New leadership had a very bullish attitude that everyone before had been doing it wrong and that now we would smash it. There was bullying, shouting, swearing, stamping of little man feet and one by one, waving goodbye to the previous sales team. There's a culture of a competence level that makes Homer Simpson look like Elon Musk! Nothing of any significance has ever been sold outside Russia. I joined the company with high expectations and joined a highly skilled team, but with an even higher staff turnover, due primarily to a culture of bullying, aggression, mistrust and lack of vision, it’s a sad end to a sorry tale.

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5.0
1 Feb 2024
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Pros

friendly society, loyal management, possibility of remote work

Cons

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5.0
10 Mar 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the team in place including management are some of brightest, most capable and nicest people I have worked with in my 12 year career. The proposition is unique. The software is a true technological breakthrough and solves a major problem in the market. Strategic thinking is very rarely boxed in by the usual 'that's the way I have always done it'. It's fascinating to hear understand how big brands aren't as close to their customers as you would think they are. As a scale up you get a tremendous amount of opportunities to influence the direction of the business. The CEO is global expert within customer data and the best leader I have ever seen. He listens, he always aspires to think the best of people (sometimes to detriment of business results), coaches his team, has very little ego - but when tough decisions need to be made, he acts. We are at the cusp of a great market and technological change - and are leading a lot of the best practice.

Cons

Mistakes were made with early hires. Good people, but had large company backgrounds and couldn't adapt to the new context. The strategy has zigzagged over the last 6 months but I think we are now on a firm course. Some of the technological and devops processes need to be improved. More work needs to be done on creating a one company culture.

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