Stepping on eggshells, lack of direction - Engineer Zignal Labs Employee Review

2.0
16 Feb 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Superficial perks of any startup: food, drinks, Apple products. "All employees contribute to the sense of success and commitment to our efforts" as the other review mentioned sounds relevant by upper management only.

Cons

Some people thinks it's "fun" working for a startup. That being said, we never know what "management" will decide on a daily basis. Meetings are constantly delayed, changed, or cancelled which cause bottlenecks and mandatory use of multiple workflow tools slow the overall completion of projects. Very difficult to freely speak to managers regarding anything. Rarely have the chance to review work by others which can cause things to break and people have to scramble putting fires out. People have left or were fired unexpectedly with zero notice leaving some feeling uneasy. There's a mentality if you keep your head and down and mouth shut it isn't so bad. Extremely polarized company. I would not recommend this to anyone.

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1.0
26 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I don't believe there is a good reason to work here anymore.

Cons

I was disenchanted with leadership when I left a while back. I wanted to write this review then, however I took a breath to be fair...I'm still shocked and appalled by what this company became. Zignal - at one point in time - was one of the companies disrupting the media monitoring (for lack of a better term) industry, forcing the old & stagnant platforms to adjust. We won some huge logos - Accenture, IBM, JPMorgan, Prudential - and had a ton of momentum which out of nowhere seemed to come to a slow. Then within a tight time-frame the head of sales, CRO, and the CEO left, followed by the CTO a bit later. Which was pretty much a bulk of the influential leadership within Zignal. FF to year or so later, for some reason the board gave the keys to the company to the head of Services who is an inexperienced and ineffective leader...the word "leader" used very loosely...and her lacky. Neither of whom was part of any notable account or win or decision made at Zignal, yet they ran the show along with the new CEO, who is as equally ineffective. Accounts are being lost left and right, yet nobody in a leadership role seems to get any blame.

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