Avoid! Leadership absence creates chaos and high stress - Recensione dipendente - Data Scientist presso BenchSci

- There is no accountability from leadership; they will pitch technology, sign contracts, and reprioritize projects with 0 communication to any impacted teams. They do not act on feedback for how C suite operates, and do not take any steps towards ownership or improving how things work. Their go-to approach to challenges is to just cut losses at the expense of everyone else. - There is no vision for what the company wants to achieve and deliver; rallying by senior leadership is always around meaningless buzz words about winning and delivering, but not any actual aspirational targets. There is an expectation from leadership that they can be absent, and wait for someone to stumble into a success that they can then profit from. - There is no actual support for people in their roles; because senior leadership has no vision, they cannot provide feedback on priorities or direction. C-suite does not work strategically with its teams, and does not include senior management/directors in their decision-making process meaning everything is delivered frantically last-minute. You can't ask your manager for guidance because they are in the same boat as everyone else. One of the most striking things for me in recent memory is that the director of Science which was >50 people were not included in any kind of planning or messaging. This was our direct line of contact and leadership just ignored us, and every other team (product, engineering, etc). - There is a lot of stress; because there is no direction from the company, there are no opportunities for planning or collaborating, there is no additional context as to what work needs to be done and why it is important. Because of this, a lot of people take on additional responsibilities to essentially manage the expectations of cross-functional stakeholders who share 0 alignment. This really sets people up to be a scapegoat as there is never a target you are working against and so failure states become subjective giving leadership a lot of flexibility in how they look at staff performance. - Roles and responsibilities are absolutely not clear; I received numerous titles like Senior Scientist, Data Scientist, etc over my tenure but this was only to give me bigger pay promotions. I never received a new title and did any different kind of work, and I was forever stuck in the same role of product/stakeholder manager. - There is a lot of politics in every decision; no one shares a vision or a goal and so everyone thinks they have the right idea, and it is really hard to align. A lot of feelings get hurt in senior leadership, and bad work gets rewarded if it is new and shiny enough. - The workload is insane with the expectation of delivering production-ready features in 1 week; this means we essentially have to define the requirements leadership cannot give us because of their lack of accountability, create a plan to meet those requirements, and then implement, test, and deploy.