Interesting company/industry, rough and toxic workplace especially at the higher levels - Recensione dipendente - Product Owner presso Akerna

- A toxic workplace is definite reality primarily from leadership down. I was often yelled at, threatened, or just insulted for voicing my opinion; which revolved around the asking 'why are we working on this over other competing priorities?' 'if we pivot to work on this can we deprioritize the other work to not put it at risk or overload the team?' 'The team is overloaded and morale is down can we hire additional resources?' - Upper level management is not 'available' to direct reports. I would often go weeks if not a full 2 months without having any personal time with my manager. Meetings were scheduled and they would be either 25 mins late to a 30 min meeting with me waiting for them in their office (not responding to messages) or schedule over our time every week and push to the next week in perpituity. - Time management is non-existant, some weeks i would be in 30-35 hours of meetings a week (some of which were about how do we reduce meeting fatigue and get more async with little to no gain on solving this problem)/ - Buzzwords are king, i have never worked at place that loved the use of buzzwords to point of not making any sense. If a problem occured the response was often insert 'buzzword' will make this not happen again. On the occasions i would ask, are we sure that will solve the problem or what is your definition of that word because i don't think they are related. Comically the most common response was; 'i am not sure what that means but was told to tell the teams and clients it will fix everything' - Sales teams would often lie to the point of absurdity. I totally understand having to flex a bit to make the sale but when a sale is closed against functions that don't exist but are not even planned, it puts the teams into really bad spots that breeds antimocity (especially when you sit next to eachother and hear yourself being thrown under the bus)