Following one of the Aily Standards, the MIOSS is simple: a self-proclaimed AI only company which still suffers to define a vision for itself just as much as it suffers to create a healthy environment for its employees.
The vision is built on buzzwords and latest trends, preferring quantity over quality. This translates to no long nor medium or short term strategy and as a consequence, a chaotic vision of the product itself, which after 4 years, it still struggles to insert itself in the routine of its clients.
The management incompetence is shown in many different levels, from both people and product/project aspects. A collection of “yes-man”, leading delivers through micromanagement and constant pressure to get things done while repeating the same errors over and over again. For a tech company, the amount of technical debt piling up daily is shocking.
As a company that once used to thrive in fast promotions as a reward of the great effort, the only fast things left is the speed at which the direction of the product vision changes. While the hierarchical levels in theory make sense, the execution of it is very poor, often delivered through lack of feedback, using the card of “visibility” whenever a promotion doesn’t go through, or worse, the excuse of “lack of budget” when the budget for irrationally expensive off-sites is unlimited. The level of disrespect and disdain towards its strongest pillars is astonishing.
However, the things that most defines your experience in the company is the lack any work-life balance. Burnout is faced with an encouragement to “keep pushing” and a bait for a possible future promotion. An environment that incentivises workaholism, blurring the lines between professional and personal life by encouraging a continues "extra mile".
It is indeed very sad to see a group of such talented people be overworked to extremes chasing a vision that probably doesn’t even exist in the head of its founders.
