A previous review says ‘great access to senior leadership’ but ‘no opinion of CEO’. I’ll let the reader read between the lines there.
The CEO is always the smartest person in the room and rarely listens to anyone, including the board. His stubbornness and lack of focus is has serious ripples in the business and within the senior leadership team with rumours of multiple C-Suite departures. Many of the employees also are white Oxbridge men who are always the smartest in the room. The company culture could be described as the exact opposite of a growth mindset. To be sure, there are not enough women or people of colour but the real diversity issue is diversity of thought.
Personal politics are everything. Infighting within the senior leadership team trickles down and affects everyone. Lots of backstabbing. Multiple senior personnel have been fired without cause and frogmarched out the door within minutes (many in the last few months). This behaviour is highly unusual and not gone unnoticed by current staff.
Most staff are very overworked and under appreciated. The CEO praises people in the office in the evening but as he doesn’t get in till 10a, he never notices those in early - or on time. Worse, he frequently ‘catches’ people on their way out and draws things on white boards for hours with zero regards to anyone’s personal life or commitments. Many employees are routinely told late nights and weekends are what is expected of them ‘in their position’. As a result, most managers across the board don’t have much of a respect for work-life balance either as the message from the top is very clear.
It’s an absolute shame as the company could have had a lot going for it but is in a tailspin. Burning through cash, a board who can’t make decisions, heavy investments in sales before a solid product was ready. It’s a disaster. I’d steer well clear!
